If you're old, you can read this but not hear it

[steve-norrell]

My 70 year old ears couldn't hear a thing, but then I know I have almost total high frequency hearing loss anyway. I probably would not have heard it thirty years ago.

Silence can be beautiful. Regards, Steve

[Uncle Cracker]

Hear it, but don't like it... Even makes my tinnitus sound good...

[footprintsinconc]

i can barely hear it at full volume, but my wife can't (35/33). however, my daughter and son can hear from like 40ft away (they were playing in at the end of the hallway) at full volume. its an annoying sound, not much of a ring tone.

[Mrs. Wallnut]

I can't seem to hear it. Everyone else could hear it but I couldn't. (35)

[RodKirby]

Hear what?

[coach]

I hear it. Loud and clear. 37

I've known I could hear it though. I had students try to get by with that. I let them know that the Old Coach still has a little bit.

[chopnhack]

I could hear it...but barely ;(
It is very annoying! I don't think it qualifies as a cool ringtone. Kids must be getting dumber, they could just as easily put it on vibrate

[Tom Slick]

my dog, wife, and I all heard it loud and clear. That's interesting because I usually test with "some hearing loss."

There was an article awhile back where a store in England had a problem with teens loitering so they piped that sound into the store. none of the adult customers could hear it and the teens stayed away. it was "teen repellent."

[Crash2510]

neither of my parents could hear it, but my mom complained her ears started to pop

sister started yelling "what the h*ll is that" from her room 50ft away as soon as I played it

[big tim]

I could hear it if I turned the volume way up and put my ear close to the speaker. I'm 77. It's quite common to slowly loose the ability to hear higher frequencies as we age.
Many many years ago when I was working at recording studio we did an informal test by running an audio generator to a speaker via an amplifier of course and slowly increased the frequency and it became quite obvious that the older the coworker was the sooner he indicated that he could not hear the signal anymore. The higher the frequency, the more volume we need to hear it.

Tim

[ironhat]

The railroad air jacks ruined my hearing when I was in my 20's. THere wasn't any such thing as hearing protection back then. Now, all I have is a different, high-pitched whistle in each ear. It's louder some times than others.

[Crash2510]

if anybody you show this to thinks its a joke you can adjust up the frequency in wm player under the custom bar

[Kerf]

I can hear it, very annoying BTW

[mpc]

I can hear it, though I had to turn up the speaker volume a little. A lot of cheapie PC speaker setups (like mine) probably can't play such high frequencies all that well either. Last time I had my hearing checked it came back as okay - and with better than average high-frequency capability for a slob my age (43 now). An audiologist friend of mine told me a few things about hearing loss a while ago:
1: yup, you loose higher frequency hearing as you age.
2: women tend to hear higher ranges than men... at all ages.
3: folks that drive a lot with the window down often have hearing loss in that ear. And another friend, who had a long commute from the valley for a few years, got skin cancer on that side of her face...

I may put this mp3 file on auto-repeat on the work computer and see if anybody notices. We JUST moved into a different building - basically into the rafters of an old factory building - so everybody is expecting creaks, groans, dust, and various stale smells. A high-pitched whine will probably drive many folks nuts and they'll blame it on the building - not on me! And most of the more annoying co-workers happen to be much younger too... we'll see if "teenage repellant" is also "annoying coworker repellant."

mpc

[docrowan]

I could only hear a click when I started and stopped it. My wife could hear it right off.

We married right. I can't hear but she's got great hearing. She can't smell (once gave the baby spoiled milk AFTER she smelled it), so I'm the official "smeller" in the family.