Can you hear this?

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Can you hear the ringtone?

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I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm going to guess that I'll be able to hear it. I can tell when the TV is on down stairs with the volume off or movie paused when I'm upstairs. It's rather annoying.

I'm 29.
 
kylehnat
Tell me, what's wrong with vibrate? I always despised the people whose phones rang in class. Just put it on vibrate and stick it in your pocket. Problem solved. The people immediately around you can hear it, but at least it doesn't disrupt the whole class.
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I always have my phone on vibrate. I used to miss calls all the time when I had it on regular ring. No I use Manner Mode all the time, and I almost never fail to notice a call coming in.

On the subject of the high-pitch ringtone: I didn't try it through speakers, but via crappy headphones with no foam pads that I deliberately put off my ears, I could hear it fine. On the first play it sounded like it was intermittent, but that may just have been buffering, because the second play it sounded constant.

I'm 41.

[edit] OK, I just tried it through the crappy little 1" speakers built into my work monitor. At middle colume I could hear it, but I'm not sure if it would attract my attention as a ring tone, however.
 
Yeah it was intermittent on my first play, but I tried it again with time to allow it to buffer fully and it was constant, I can only hear it in my right ear though.
 
I'm 19 and I can hear it clearly. Two years ago, in Spanish class, the teacher always left the TV on (black screen of course), and we would notice. She couldn't hear it.

My dad couldn't hear the ring tone. He's 53.
 
dougiemeats
I'm 19 and I can hear it clearly. Two years ago, in Spanish class, the teacher always left the TV on (black screen of course), and we would notice. She couldn't hear it.

My dad couldn't hear the ring tone. He's 53.
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my family always leaves the t.v. on... and it makes a ringing annoying sound

i just made my sister listen to it... ans while it was half way through she said, "i missed it, play it again let me hear"

i had to blast the speakers, "oh i can barely hear it now"
 
HAHA, I turned it up another notch while my parents are watching TV and they haven't made a reaction whatsoever. Makes me think Dad never heard it at all.

*rubs head*
 
Yes - And it's ******* annoying...

I'm not a teen BTW.... Close though..
 
Weird! I'm 40 on Thursday, and I couldn't hear it to start with, but when I turned up the volume very high, there it was. It wasn't that the noise got louder, it just appeared when I turned it up to 11.

But then I've been giving my ears abuse since I was 13, so it's hardly surprising :D
 
FastEddie12
it just appeared when I turned it up to 11.
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*Puts on phony English accent*

Is that like, when you want, you know, that extra kick? When 10 just isn't good enough?
 
Famine is completely right with the background story, as usual.

It became extremely annoying during my last few days in school, but thankfully no-ones been a big enough ass to set it off during the exams... yet. There's still Welsh tomorrow.

[EDIT] Both my parents heard it! My dad didn't originally but caught on in abit, but my mum immediatley. I'm amazed seen as I thought my dad was partially deaf after his rocker years.
 
19, and I can hear it pretty well. But that will get annoying if someone is using that and can't hear it, but you can. I'd have to tell them to answer it!
 
:yep and im 15 so could my sister shes 12 but my 41 year old mom... not even a bit lol but after words all of our ears hurt:indiff: ... even my moms:nervous:
 
danoff
*Puts on phony English accent*

Is that like, when you want, you know, that extra kick? When 10 just isn't good enough?
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That's phony English alright ;).

Charlotte could hear it she's 22, I'm not ringing my mum and putting the phone next to the speakers to test it on her :lol:.
 
Famine
Here's the background to this...

A while ago now, a company came up with something called "The Mosquito", a loud noise of about 18.5kHz, which was imperceptible by adults but quite annoying to teenagers. The theory was that you could drive away congregating groups of young 'uns without hurting them.

This has been seized upon by some teens, allowing them to have their mobile phones ringing in class without their teachers hearing it. It's not loud or long enough to be seriously annoying to them, but it's a sound they can hear and "adults" can't.

So they've taken a "weapon" against them and turned it into a method of communication - just like the aliens in Independance Day...



As to whether YOU can hear it - can your computer's speakers play a sound at 18,500Hz, or are you just hearing the speakers struggle beyond their range?
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I was going to say it must be around that 20khz range. There is so much noise in my office between the fluorescent lights, the A/C unit, the three computers and the traffic outside that I couldn't hear it. When I turned up the speakers all the way up I could then hear it faintly. I was surprised that these Compaq speakers could even reproduce that frequency. I also noticed that the frequency is really close to some of the fan and Hard drive noise of the computers in my office. Never really thought of it before, but my office is bloody loud. Tile floors, Glass windows all the way around and hard walls/trim for the balance. There is acoustic tiling on the ceiling though which helps.

So really to answer the question, I would have to say Not at first and not until I cranked up the volume. The ringing matches the ringing in my head so it's hard to distinguish the tones.... Friggin drummers anyways...they always have to bash the living tar out of their cymbals....right by my head.
 
Wow, I can hear that perfectly even with my speakers turned down. Hurt my ears though. Heck I think I've got good hearing and everyone I know thinks I do too. I've heard the phone ring inside of my house while a buddy and I were on the porch laughing our asses off. The door was closed the and the phone was upstairs. My buddy was kind of freaked out that I could hear that.
 
I've got good hearing in my right ear, like you I can hear things well like the phone while I'm outside or next doors phone when I'm in the unnatached side of the house:grumpy::lol:, but not so much bad hearing in my left, I just can't hear certain frequencies like this one in it. I had a clash with someone playing football a month or two ago, it was just one of thoes things, he tried to turn around me but turned into me instead and he headbutted my right onmy ear, it sounded like a bomb had gone off for about 5 mins, I went to the doctors the next day because it didn't feel right and he said I had perforated my ear drum, but it wasn't as bad as it could have been and should heal by itself. But I can't hear really high frequencies like that, or like signals coming from electrical equiptment like I can in my right ear anymore, but my ear drum has healed.
 
Famine
Oh great. Now I've got tinnitus.
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I've had it for years, and it prevents me from hearing "brilliance" in musical pieces. But, that ring tone was loud a clear.
 
Mmmmm.... pure tones. Hear loud and clear, as displayed by my HD650's. I think I'll stick with my custom-cut MGS codec for a ringtone, though.
 
According to the graphic equalizer in Windows Media Player, it has a signal around the 8,000-10,000Hz range, and higher level signal at the 15,000Hz range.
 
I can hear it clearly (and I'm old) and it made me feel a very little bit "odd" in my head. :)

EDIT: tried a second time with the volume around 50% and it was really loud and annoying. The first time I tried, the volume was set lower than 10%.
 
DeLoreanBrown
*snip*

It's for hounds this cellphone, right?
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I know you're trying to ask something here....but I just can't make it out.

Are you asking if this is for sounds for a cellphone? Or are you asking if this is for hound dogs?
 
I heard it, clearly, but my dad had no clue. I'm 13, and he's in his 40's
 
Pako
I know you're trying to ask something here....but I just can't make it out.

Are you asking if this is for sounds for a cellphone? Or are you asking if this is for hound dogs?
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No, just the high dominant frequency hit the inner cochlea & i know dogs react v.suddenly to sounds like this. Sure, you could answer it but what if the day you acheived dementia you got a load of urgent calls, it would be that murphy's law applicant.
 
Pako
I know you're trying to ask something here....but I just can't make it out.

Are you asking if this is for sounds for a cellphone? Or are you asking if this is for hound dogs?
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I think he was asking if the cell phone was for dogs (as a joke) - which is why the ring sounds like a dog whistle.
 
Yeah, I could hear it. (15)
My parents couldn't, though.
I always hear stuff like this from lights, deer repellant things, TVs and stuff, gets annoying.
 
Vonie
Yeah, I could hear it. (15)
I always hear stuff like this from lights, deer repellant things, TVs and stuff, gets annoying.
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Exactly, you should hear it when I power up the 'ol Apple IIgs monitor around here.
 

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