Yup, loud and clear. Sounds like a TV or monitor when its on.
I can always tell when I walk into a quiet place if there's a TV on, even if I can't see it.
I'm 31 in case that helps.
I just tried it at home and even at a very low volume I heard it without any problems. All I was hearing at work were the over tones without any of the detail of the actual tone.
BTW, forgot to mention that my 65-year-old dad couldn’t hear it at all. He was about three feet from the speakers, and I even showed him when I clicked on the file, and he couldn’t detect anything at all.
I should get my dad to have a listen, he cant hear high frequency stuff at all (like my mothers voice ), then get him to listen with his hearing aids in.
Someone just created some test cases where you can test where your threshold is.
I can hear ≤18,000 Hz, but not anything above that (though 19,000 and 20,000 make me uncomfortable, which I assume means my ears are still picking up the waves but just not “translating” them).
I can hear it fine; I'm 18. My mom (54) can't hear it unless she puts her ear right next to the speaker, even on full blast. My dad can't hear a goddam thing, so I know he won' be able to. I think it's so cool and weird that old people can't hear that.
I had this strange talent during school for being able to tell if we were going to watch a movie from clear at the other end of the hallway. I could hear the TV buzzing away and it was annoying as hell. Speaking of that, I always ended up turning my TV off to do homework, because "mute" just wasn't good enough and the buzz pissed me off.
I wonder what the world would sound like if the human ear could hear infinite frequencies. Anybody think it would be unbearable--all the noise?
EDIT: Is there a feature on WMP that tells you the frequency of the sound? I want to know how high it is, since Vonie mentioned that humans have a threshold of abot 20,000 Hz.
Someone just created some test cases where you can test where your threshold is.
I can hear ≤18,000 Hz, but not anything above that (though 19,000 and 20,000 make me uncomfortable, which I assume means my ears are still picking up the waves but just not “translating” them).
Keep in mind that there are many factors that will distort your curve including starting sound levels, speaker limitations/exaggerations, and natural room acoustics.
Thats what I can clearly hear, is that what I'm supposed to hear from it? If so then I should have voted clearly in the poll instead of barely.
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Someone just created some test cases where you can test where your threshold is.
I can hear ≤18,000 Hz, but not anything above that (though 19,000 and 20,000 make me uncomfortable, which I assume means my ears are still picking up the waves but just not translating them).
I could clearly hear up to 15,000Hz, then 16,000Hz was a little faint but after that I could clearly hear all of them up to the limit they had of 25,000Hz on both headphones and speakers.
I had this strange talent during school for being able to tell if we were going to watch a movie from clear at the other end of the hallway. I could hear the TV buzzing away and it was annoying as hell. Speaking of that, I always ended up turning my TV off to do homework, because "mute" just wasn't good enough and the buzz pissed me off.
You know what, I have to get a USB to A/V cable so I can get this here laptop hooked up to my stereo. It doesn't have a proper "home theater" sub, but the two 8"s will hold 30 Hz pretty well. Then I can take that test thing and see what I get. I just wish it had some of those neato little 1" tweeters; those things could make your eyes water.
I'm 19, and I can hear the "mosquito noise," and the ringtone very clearly. My mom, who will be turning 50 next year, can also hear both clearly. 18000hz appears to be the limit of my PC's hardware, but a 17500hz sine wave that I brought up on Sound Forge is still very easy to hear.
I can hear up to about 17,000 Hz before things start to fade away. Oddly, 20-22k Hz I couldn't hear a thing, but at 23 and 24k I could slightly hear a distinctively different sound between them. Nothing at 25k again.
), then get him to listen with his hearing aids in.
