| User | Comment |
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Crayons   | | posted 19-Aug-2008 2:30pm |
21.1... but my parents could hear it too, and they're like... old! |
LindaH    | | posted 19-Aug-2008 2:43pm |
21.1 And I am 38. |
bill  | | posted 19-Aug-2008 3:03pm |
12?! what the hell is wrong with me?! Maybe it's my PC .... I'll try my laptop. |
Galomorro  | | posted 19-Aug-2008 4:21pm |
Other. Forget this for me. I am hearing impaired in both ears and when I wear one of my hearing aids I get interference/feedback out of the ear that's closest to the computer speaker. I think this is more for people with normal hearing. |
| ausfox | | posted 19-Aug-2008 4:34pm |
15.8 |
| ihatespiders | | posted 19-Aug-2008 6:41pm |
21.1 and I will soon be 53. |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 19-Aug-2008 9:44pm |
21 i can hear this pretty good i am a dog woof woof |
| JessicaWoman99 |
21 and i am 52 going on 53 in February plus i turned off my fan in here tee hee oh we are dogs woof woof
and it helps to turn up the volume on your speakers Bill |
moviesnob  | | posted 19-Aug-2008 10:12pm |
I could hear 21.1. But that says that I'm a dog if I can hear that, so maybe not. |
| LindaH |
I'm glad I can still hear well, because I love music so much  |
| kcthedog | | posted 19-Aug-2008 10:52pm |
 21.1kHz
I'm fifty-four nanner, nanner! |
| kcthedog | | (reply to LindaH) posted 19-Aug-2008 10:54pm |
> 21.1 And I am 38.
Not bad for an old lady. So what now? Money grows on trees? |
| LindaH | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 19-Aug-2008 10:55pm |
Yeah, it's due to bloom soon |
| LindaH | | posted 19-Aug-2008 10:55pm |
and who you callin old lady, ya old hippie |
| kcthedog | | posted 19-Aug-2008 10:56pm |
I was gonna say 22.4kHz but nobody would believe me, but I can. |
| LindaH | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 19-Aug-2008 10:57pm |
cause you'z a dawg |
| kcthedog | | (reply to LindaH) posted 19-Aug-2008 10:58pm |
Well good for you! When you get rich you can fly to California for a visit, or buy me a ticket to Alaska. |
| kcthedog | | (reply to LindaH) posted 19-Aug-2008 10:59pm |
> cause you'z a dawg
Bow wow! |
| dab | | posted 19-Aug-2008 11:13pm |
I had to keep turning the volume up but even then, 15.8kHz was as high as I could hear. |
| Crayons |
Actually, I noticed it changed when I messed with he treble and bass settings on my speakers. |
| LJD | | posted 20-Aug-2008 2:27am |
10kHz |
| bill |
What's that? I can't hear you! Speak up! |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to LindaH) posted 20-Aug-2008 12:46pm |
> I'm glad I can still hear well, because I love music so much
Is'nt amazing! how well we can hear could hardly believe how well i can hear and yes" our music my Rock & Roll the Doobie Brothers or Fleetwood Mac still love this music oh yes Linda i do and yes it is true as I think about this the smallest sounds i can hear so well must be because we are women?? Men they cannot hear as well tee hee |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 20-Aug-2008 12:49pm |
But i would believe you because your a dog( kcthedog) bark bark |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to bill) posted 20-Aug-2008 12:51pm |
> What's that? I can't hear you! Speak up!
Ha what! oh gee must be the volume?? Please turn up your volume loud as you can and see what happens let me know? |
| JessicaWoman99 | | posted 20-Aug-2008 12:52pm |
Whoops" my Bass button was off due to coffee cup |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to Crayons) posted 20-Aug-2008 12:54pm |
Ha" it was turned off blame it on Bill?? nah nah |
| bill |
Hey, you were right!
I could hear them all just fine, up to 21.1kHz after I turned up my volume... They didn't even seem that high pitched?!
hm. I wonder if this is all just bogus... |
| JessicaWoman99 | | (reply to bill) posted 20-Aug-2008 1:18pm |
> Hey, you were right!
>
> I could hear them all just fine, up to 21.1kHz after I turned up my
> volume... They didn't even seem that high pitched?!
>
> hm. I wonder if this is all just bogus...
Yes it is all bogus Bill and it is a scam! we been had already now it is time for the dogpound for all survey central members check in time is 6:00 pm tonight? |
| LJD | | posted 20-Aug-2008 1:27pm |
And to think I thought I had good hearing... |
| Matty | | posted 20-Aug-2008 1:42pm |
woof woof! |
| Hanes | | posted 20-Aug-2008 1:45pm |
yikes |
| Hanes | | posted 20-Aug-2008 1:46pm |
yikes 8 |
| Cain | | posted 20-Aug-2008 4:05pm |
14.9kHz.
God, I feel positively decrepit. |
| dab | | posted 20-Aug-2008 4:16pm |
Hmmm. I think there's something wrong here. I tried it again and found that I get no sound from the 16.7kHz. I just didn't try any higher the first time but if I try them, I can hear many of them. However, they don't steadily get higher in pitch as they should. |
| dab | | posted 20-Aug-2008 4:23pm |
More experimenting, this time with generating my own signals, and 15.8kHz is as high as I can hear, maybe 16kHz. The samples on that website from 16.7kHz up are wrong. Now I have a headache and my ears are ringing. |
| cloudhugger | | posted 20-Aug-2008 11:06pm |
I only heard one, somewhere near the top. I don't know if it is working or not. My ears have so many high pitched tones in them now anyway. They ring like crazy. |
| cloudhugger | | posted 20-Aug-2008 11:16pm |
18.8
I turned my volumn up and tilted my head. I turned my head back and forth and sometimes I could hear brief snippets like a thin slit of soundwaves. Weird howthe tomes are still in my ears...  well....they were there to begin with. |
| kcthedog |
Howl...............howl...............howl....................! |
| kcthedog |
> 18.8
> I turned my volumn up and tilted my head.
> I turned my head back and forth and sometimes
> I could hear brief snippets like a thin slit
> of soundwaves. Weird howthe tomes are still
> in my ears... well....they were there
> to begin with.
Oh yea! I hear much better when I cock my head back and forth.  |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 21-Aug-2008 9:06am |
*shakes head with silly grin* |
| Kristal_Rose | | posted 21-Aug-2008 6:49pm |
Alas, only 16.7kHz these days. It was 22 when I was a kid. Those are some painful tones. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to bill, dab) posted 21-Aug-2008 7:00pm |
People with cheap sound cards or poor speaker response are probably getting 16kHz from higher samples, or even getting an octave lower, like 11kHz from a 22kHz sample. This would especially be evident if the tone undulated rather than sounded pure. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to LJD) posted 21-Aug-2008 7:13pm |
What matters most is your level of 200-400 Hz (human speech) hearing, not your ability to hear dog whistles. The last two bands on a 10 band home-stereo equalizer are tpically 8kHz and 16kHz. Most music recorded for computers only even goes up to 12kHz though (recorded with a 24kHz sound card). Probably the only thing you are missing worthwhile is hummingbird chirps. The rest of it would be irritating things like circuit board and lightbulb hums.
It's the subsonic stuff I don't hear well, which is funny because I'm a bass player, and can't really hear my lowest string too well. |
| bill |
Yeah, that would explain it... or something like that. If I turned up the volume, I could hear higher tones, but the pitch would sometimes sound lower... didn't seem right. It varied, though (not always 16, it seemed). So, maybe it was some other affect. My speakers aren't super-cheap, but not expensive either, just average. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to bill) posted 21-Aug-2008 10:23pm |
It would be something inbetween the system max and an octave lower. 16k times per second the sound card would be delivering the level of say a 17k signal. If you sample a 6 cycle per second signal 4 times per second (8 actually to get highs and lows) the result will appear to be a 2 cycle/sec wave, the highest common denominator. For a 17k signal sampled at 16k, 1k will be the HCD sound produced. Depending on how the soundcard samples though, and the exact frequencies involved, just about anything is possible.
I suspect lately that they've been using surround-sound to create audio subliminals in tv commercials.If you old your ear to the speaker there's nothing suspicious to be heard, it's only when the fresh compression waves intersect with waves that bounced off you back wall that you hear strange composited stuff coming from the the middle of your living room that people shouldnt be saying in public; and if you're in the kitchen during commercial breaks, that stuff becomes more prominent.
I came up with a similar invention of triangulating complementary composite audio white-noise over two cross-cancelling white-noise carrier channels, such that audio in one's computer cubicle could only be heard at a specific head location where the two speakers intersected. Come to think of it would be a plane of intersection also audible to someone standing behind you. Even that could be prevented by taking advantage of relative frequency latency. The system would probably require quadruple the frequency response though to accurately deliver composite signal components. |
| dab |
No, I don't think so. When I generated my own sound files and played them over the same hardware, I got a steadily increasing pitch until I couldn't hear it at all anymore. When I played the sound samples from that site, the pitch went up and down as I moved up through the frequencies. So I think the clips on the website are broken. |
| kcthedog |
That's what I am talking about! |
| cloudhugger | | (reply to kcthedog) posted 22-Aug-2008 12:39am |
lol |
| LindaH |
That post is fun to read after drinking hot buttered rum |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to dab) posted 22-Aug-2008 12:59am |
I could download them and visually examine them. How did you generate your own files? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to LindaH) posted 22-Aug-2008 1:01am |
Yeah, I bet. What goes in hot buttered rum? |
| dab |
I used sox. |
| LindaH |
butter, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, rum, hot water. maybe a teeny bit of cloves and salt |
| LJD |
Kristal Rose, how are you? I hope you're doing well.. I know the loss of a loved one is difficult, and only time can heal. You'll always have the fond memories of your son, to warm your heart.
Kristal Rose, I generally can hear most sounds. You're right I should not expect myself to hear as a dog. Their sense of hearing and smell is well of above the human. My husband is near deaf, having a difficult time. What really concerns me is my 46 year old daughter has lost 70% of her hearing, and getting worse. This has only happened in the last two years. The doctor said he really can't find the reason why. Asked if she was listening to loud music. She has in the past, as a young person. She did near the time of the loss of hearing she had gone to a car race with her son. I guess it was an accumulation of things. I feel bad for her.
Take care Kristal Rose, God Bless! |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to LJD) posted 22-Aug-2008 7:09pm |
That's unfortunate. When any of the senses are impaired it can feel isolating. She should find another doctor. It wouldn't surprise me if they can't figure it out though. If it were gradual and related to events, I'd think she'd know. I find it hard to imagine that accumulated events have delayed effects. Perhaps she's been damaging herself with cotton-swabs or even has a scarring allergic reaction to shampoo. There are four components there: mechanical ear drum and hammer anvil, cochlea and nervous system, brain wiring, and psychology. Does she have other skin, bone/cartilige, or neurochemical problems/symptoms? A positive-hearing hearing test will rule out all but the psychological, and I presume that's occurred already. Psychology could factor in to gradual brain rewiring though if the mechanical mechanisms are still good. I'm guessing the main thing which goes bad is the ear drum itself, and it seems that should have some capacity to heal itself. Diet, especially salts, calcium and vitamin D, coud be affecting the cochlea and neurochemical transmission. How are her joints and nails doing? Aspirin ODs cause tinnitus. Perhaps there are other medications with adverse affects even in prescribed doses.
I wouldn't be going to things like car races myself. Perhaps she could meditate with low music on to exercise her sensitivity.
I've had things like slipped discs repair themselves over time. I have no data to go on, but it seems like something which could come back. Things like vision can improve over time sometimes (I've had that happen too). |
| LJD |
I believe you've hit the nail on the head. She has had depression, anxiety, and loads of stress. As you know, we really can't separate the body/mind/spirit. I believe her stress has affected her greatly. She was diagnosed with OCD, a few years back. She's a single mother, divorced 6 years ago, under a lot of stress, which has taken its toll. While pregnant she was gestational diabetic, so she is a presently non diagnosed diabetic, which can affect the kidneys, which controls hearing.
You're right the body is grand at repairing itself...of course depending. |
| Gomezy3k | | posted 24-Aug-2008 12:03pm |
Well having to wear hearing aids... I do not hear too many tones... |
| they | | posted 25-Aug-2008 8:35pm |
I can hear up to 16.7, I can't hear 17.7 or 18.8, but I can hear 19.9 and 21.1.
What up with that? |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to Gomezy3k) posted 26-Aug-2008 6:44am |
Most everything important in our lives (speech, music, traffic noises, kitchen appliances) is way well below these tones anyhow. |
| Melf | | posted 26-Aug-2008 4:28pm |
18.8kHz. Gay. |
| Wicksy |
Pardon? |
| HMC35 |
18.8kHz. |
Joanne  |
I could hear the 16.7kHz click on and off, but could not hear the tone. I feel kinda good, though, 'cause the comment said I was in my twenties and I'm more than double that! Ha! Next, I'm checking my euezight |
| docgbrown |
Wow, I can just make out 22.4 but half of them I can't hear at all and almost none of them next to each other. |
meowry  |
I could hear 22.4 click on and off, but for the tone I could only hear 19.9.
My ears are ringing. |
| diabeticdave | | posted 12-Oct-2008 4:14am |
The brown note. |
