Students Find Ring Tone Adults Can't Hear

i just shoot first, and ask quistions later. :browani:

 

Exactly my neighbor's thinking. It's not a joke to my neighbor. And my dh would probably be more vigilant if Jeff wasn't around.

We live on a private drive - each have 3 acres - if you're around all of us in the middle of the night (or during the day & not recognized as a neighbor or friend) you'd better be on your best behavior.

 

You don't have a gap in your hearing at 17Khz. The problem is that distortion usually creates a different and very audible buzz at the higher frequencies. That means you are not playing them correctly. When you play them correctly, the first one is the loudest one and it goes progressively fainter from there. You were probably playing the first two correctly but then the last two were distorted which created another high pitch, but fake, buzz.

 

That one took me a while to play it correctly. On Winamp, no matter what I did (turned off Ozone plugin, EQ, etc.) it would not play correctly. It sounded like an old telephone bell....Then I just opened it in Windows Media Player and it sounded really loud until I realized I had the EQ active so I turned it off. At that point it started playing the way it should. So I guess this means it depends on which player you use to reproduce the sound as well as your sound card capabilities and your speakers. But this one sounds just like a CRT TV set.

 

I finally got it uploaded to my V3 and played it. I could hear it.

-Jay

 

I'm almost 25 and can still hear it, it's not the click at the end you are suppose to hear folks, that's the speakers you hear doing that. It's a buzzing, it's sort of similar to the sound of electricity moving in high amounts a whine or buzz, hence the name mosquito ringtone, but I wouldn't quite call it the sound of a mosquito. Whoever heard it and named it didn't do a good job.

 

Wow, bobo, you have too much free time on your hands. But thanks for making that... I had wondered what they meant when I read articles about this "teen buzz" as you put it. I could barely hear the one at the end but I could hear the other three. Interesting stuff.

 

I heard it and I was 35 when I loaded it onto my cell. My range of hearing is kinda off though. I can't hear low frequency very well, but high frequency I can hear very well. The sound a computer monitor (or a TV on a blank blue screen) makes absolutely drives me up the wall.

-Jay

 

It's funny to see this topic being back from the dead. All I can say is that if you are 35 yr old and you can't hear the buzz, you've been too much at the night clubs already.

 

No, I was saying that I could hear it. I never enjoied going to nightclubs anyway.

-Jay

 

Well, I'm in my second half-century and with my (cheap) headphones turned up I can definitely hear the first one that Bobo made, probably the second, but I can't really hear the later ones. I can hear the NYT one that our3rotts posted, and that's pretty annoying if tuned up loud. I had forgotten about this thread for a year and I had forgotten to test myself. :O

SW