Silent ringtone €2

KdjaCL

Are "young people" that ****ing stupid?

Some ringtone company is selling a 17000hz ring tone that only young peolpe can hear with the tag "can you hear it?"

How many dumbasses will actually buy it?


http://ir.celldorado.com/IR/ADS/9543270/index.php?trackid=33581055

kdjac

super_furry

Don't phones have vibrate anymore?

Ruu_Old

Thats an old one, you use to be able to download it from the Today FM website.

weeder

lol it says the first is free XD meaning we wont charge for it but its subscription anyway

The first silent ringtone is free. After this the costs are € 2,50 per msg, max 3 ringtones per week, €15,00 per week. Sent text charged at standard operator fees. Min. age 18+ with bill payer's permission. To stop this subscription service? Text STOP to 57030.

biko

It's been on AH before and some 40 year olds could hear it anyway.
I'm in my 30s and can hear them.

mp3guy

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hizc81

17000Hz Sine wave

biko

biko wrote:

It's been on AH before and some 40 year olds could hear it anyway.
I'm in my 30s and can hear them.

Well, I'm mid 40s and can't hear it but am aware of it's presence by pressure in my ears & attenuation of other sounds, it harmonises with my tinitus:rolleyes:

danniemcq

biko wrote:

It's been on AH before and some 40 year olds could hear it anyway.
I'm in my 30s and can hear them.

you're in your 30's!!! WTF huh i though mid 20's max

copacetic

it depends on the person and on the freq of the sounds, the 17kHz one above
is quite low, I thought the phone ones were 20kHz. Webpage with each freq
so you can test yourself here:

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html

Thrill

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hizc8

I'm getting...

404 Page Not Found

aidan_walsh

/sets phone to silent
/does ASDA tap on €2 coin in pocket

unreggd

whats is sposta sound like? All i hear is an annoying pitchy sound

Basq

unreggd wrote:

whats is sposta sound like? All i hear is an annoying pitchy sound

That's it..

.. should i be worried i can't hear anything past 15000 Hz?! :eek:

Thrill

unreggd wrote:

whats is sposta sound like? All i hear is an annoying pitchy sound

That it i'd say. That's what i hear as well. A high pitched tone.

The_B_Man

it was on boards AAAAGESS ago. someone posted a link. i could her it but then i had a headache the rest of the day after listenin to it. dont feel like listenin to it again.

poobum

basquille wrote:

That's it..

.. should i be worried i can't hear anything past 15000 Hz?! :eek:

depends on ur age... and job etc...if u listen to loud music or work in noisy environment it will degrade faster then normal...

Basq

poobum wrote:

depends on ur age... and job etc...if u listen to loud music or work in noisy environment it will degrade faster then normal...

23... a computer programmer.. but i never go anywhere without my iPod (and now Creative Zen) blaring!

Should probably ease up before i go deaf!

Zapp Brannigan

Im 19 and cant hear past 18000 HZ.
Always listening to my iPod and used to practise at unnecessarily high volumes with my old band!

Feral Mutant

unreggd wrote:

whats is sposta sound like? All i hear is an annoying pitchy sound

I can just hear it. It is annoyingly pitchy but it's also a sequence of beeps like a normal ringtone.

poobum

basquille wrote:

23... a computer programmer.. but i never go anywhere without my iPod (and now Creative Zen) blaring!

Should probably ease up before i go deaf!

well i doubt computer programming means alot of noise near you...nay noise slowly damages ur hearing like...but the higher the DB the quicker it degrades... ur listening to loud music would of contributed to that hugely! for eample i know a guy who has been playing drums for years and is younger then u...but his hearing it so much worse... c ur ears are different unlike most parts of ur body..they wont repair...

ixoy

I'm 28 and can just about hear the 19KHz tone, which is apparently quite good for my venerable age. Recently a monitor began emitting a high-pitched whine when it was turned on and I was being driven mad by it, whereas everyone around me was completely oblivious...

Dingatron

Should I be worried I can hear the 22000Hz one and I'm 38ish? Always thought my hearing was crap but now I realise I just don't listen to people...

Basq

Cheers for the tip, poobum!

The whole thing has scared me a bit to be honest so i'll definitely ease up in the future.

poobum

basquille wrote:

Cheers for the tip, poobum!

The whole thing has scared me a bit to be honest so i'll definitely ease up in the future.

glad to help! but dont worry about it to much... just take it easy!

PeakOutput

basquille wrote:

Cheers for the tip, poobum!

The whole thing has scared me a bit to be honest so i'll definitely ease up in the future.

in ear headphones are disguntingly bad for your ears(not in a go and make them illegal way but they are just bad) buy out of ear ones if you can

and i used to listen to ipods and stereo BLASTING all the time until i learned wat it can actually do to your ears.............seriously turn down the ipod a bit

back on topic.........the chances of the phones speakers being able to actually play 17khz are pretty slim i think so its probably more like 15/14 thats actually being played

Steven

That sound is a knife in my ears, even though I spent the night in front of ridiculously loud speakers.

Let all the oblivious people rejoice in their inability to suffer from it.

humanji

Dingatron wrote:

Should I be worried I can hear the 22000Hz one and I'm 38ish? Always thought my hearing was crap but now I realise I just don't listen to people...

I can hear the 22000Hz one too. I'm 27 and she's 26. I thought I'd I wouldn't hear that high because I've always got my iPod blaring. I can also hear dog whistles too. I think I'm broken

LundiMardi

i can here it quite well, and it's fúcking annoying!!!!!!

Nick_oliveri

Anyone got another link so i can put this on my phone and feel like a tit when i get really bored and regret wasting the energy hooking up the phone to the usb?!!

Lump

I can hear 14254.38 hz, but nothing above. That frequency makes me feel a little ill!

John

Saruman

I downloaded one from a sound studio website which took the noise decided it was not much good then processed their own at different hz. I can hear them all (27) when you get to the high one though it feels like someone blowing in your ear!! This is the kind of stuff businesses are getting to keep teenage gangs from hanging around and scaring customers.

It could be used in war!! Imagine the Americans walking around with huge boom boxes and ear plugs blasting stuff that makes the enemy sick etc...

edit just noticed the link http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html
Of these ones i can only hear up to 14000 and that one is very hard to hear. 13000 is a killer.

PeakOutput

humanji wrote:

I can hear the 22000Hz one too. I'm 27 and she's 26. I thought I'd I wouldn't hear that high because I've always got my iPod blaring. I can also hear dog whistles too. I think I'm broken

there is no chance of you speakers being able to play a 22khz tone so unfortnately you probably dont have superman hearing.........hearing dog whistles is good going though

Caliden

I'm 21 and I can barely hear 16kHz and only as low as 50Hz.

They've got some of these around entrances at GMIT to keep the smokers the minimum distance away. Annoying as hell.

PeakOutput

again your speakers will not be able to play a 50hz sound that is why you cant hear it

Caliden

im wearing headphones and I definitely hear something

PeakOutput

Caliden wrote:

im wearing headphones and I definitely hear something

your headphones have even less of a chance of being able to reproduce sound that low.........you need to spend quite a lot of money before you can buy speakers that will play sound at the extremes of our hearing range

your headphones are trying to play the sound and that is what you are hearing but im 99% sure that what it is is nowhere near 50hz sound and its the same if you try and get them to play up near 20000hz

ixoy

On my headphones there's often two sounds - one at a high pitch but nowhere near the actual high pitch that it's playing. So I'll hear this one tone quite loudly and then, more faintly above it a much higher-pitched tone. Assuming it's the poor quality of the speakers - anyone else get this effect?

Ciaran500

PeakOutput wrote:

in ear headphones are disguntingly bad for your ears(not in a go and make them illegal way but they are just bad) buy out of ear ones if you can

Source? I've had an in ear pair for about 2 years now and I listen to them far far lower than any normal set of headphones.

humanji

PeakOutput wrote:

your headphones have even less of a chance of being able to reproduce sound that low.........you need to spend quite a lot of money before you can buy speakers that will play sound at the extremes of our hearing range

your headphones are trying to play the sound and that is what you are hearing but im 99% sure that what it is is nowhere near 50hz sound and its the same if you try and get them to play up near 20000hz

Why couldn't you tells us all this before we deafened outselves with the high pitched sqeels on that site?

NutJob

mp3guy wrote:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/hizc81

17000Hz Sine wave

Im 24 and used firearms from a young age (without ear protection for some of them:()

Why can i hear it

phantom_lord

Saruman wrote:

I downloaded one from a sound studio website which took the noise decided it was not much good then processed their own at different hz. I can hear them all (27) when you get to the high one though it feels like someone blowing in your ear!! This is the kind of stuff businesses are getting to keep teenage gangs from hanging around and scaring customers.

It could be used in war!! Imagine the Americans walking around with huge boom boxes and ear plugs blasting stuff that makes the enemy sick etc...

edit just noticed the link http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html
Of these ones i can only hear up to 14000 and that one is very hard to hear. 13000 is a killer.

i can hear them all. wahoo!

PeakOutput

Ciaran500 wrote:

Source? I've had an in ear pair for about 2 years now and I listen to them far far lower than any normal set of headphones.

i cant give you a link im afraid but i studied in the music field and we had hearing safety drilled into us from the start so that is were my information is coming from.

the kind of direct sound pressure they exert when used at high levels is not what your ear was made to handle............if you use them properly then you will not have much, if any noticeable,problem but unfortunately properly means quite low levels and i would be the first to admit that the recomended levels are so low to be almost unusable anywhere other than your own quiet bedroom, but the amount of people on trains or bus's using them at a level where i can hear what they are listening to have no idea how much damage they are doing to their ears.

edit
sorry i should add that when you say you listen to them far lower i assume you mean the volume nob is turned further down...........you are able to do this cozthe speaker is so much closer to your ear it is still, more than likely, hitting your ear drum at the same db level

YeatsCounty

What does it mean when you can only hear up to 14000 and you don't listen to loud music etc? I don't wear headphones too often either. :-/

PeakOutput

YeatsCounty wrote:

What does it mean when you can only hear up to 14000 and you don't listen to loud music etc? I don't wear headphones too often either. :-/

i wouldnt worry about it too much but you can go and get an ear test i doubt they are expensive if you are young then it could be a bit strange but you prob wont notice it until you stop hearing things around 10K

ill add just to be concise that it could be a degenerative condition that will just keep getting worse and worse but an audioligist will tell you if it is or not in about 2mins and its unlikely i think

Glowing

I felt ill listening to some of the higher ones - anyone know why that is?

Wertz

18khz is my limit and that's with my amp turned up a fair bit
50hz is fine.
Listening on equipment that can do the frequencies.

I can hear that stupid ringtone just fine....I'm 33.

How long before we start seeing these bloody mosquito systems used around shops etc for keeping teens away....no-one seems to have considered that a lot of the population above 18 can hear and are annoyed by these sounds...and they do make you nauseous after a small period of time...probably to do with the inner ear and the balance system that's housed in it.

5starpool

copacetic wrote:

it depends on the person and on the freq of the sounds, the 17kHz one above
is quite low, I thought the phone ones were 20kHz. Webpage with each freq
so you can test yourself here:

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html

I can hear the 21000 clearly but not the 17000 one. What's the story with that? Is it likely to be my headphones?

Mushy

should i be worried i can't hear anything past 15000 Hz?!

Yeah me too, specially as I'm only 18. Although I've complained of poor hearing(not bad) for a while now. Time to start using earplugs at gigs, drumming aswell!

Catari Jaguar

I'm 22 and cant hear the low ones at all and can't hear past 15 000 Hz that well. argh!

MarkR

Ow. I turned up the speakers on my computer before downloading that stupid mp3.

Voodu Child

I could hear the 15khz one a minute ago, that was as high as i could go ( could kind of 'feel' higher ones but not hear them). I went up and down through the frequencies, and that was definitely the highest i could hear.

But uh.... i let it ring for about 30 seconds and i cant hear it anymore. I reloaded the page and all, still cant hear it. Either ive blown my speaker somehow, or ive just gone deaf a little bit more...

Who can i sue?