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Can you hear the mosquito?

Can you hear the sound?

  • Yes

    Votes: 71 89.9%

  • No

    Votes: 8 10.1%
  • Total voters
    79
With my speakers at normal volume, I could barely, barely hear it. To me it sounds like a high, steady whine rather than the various sounds others have described.

I'm almost 50 and have high-frequency hearing loss -- enough that occasionally things people say are unintelligible to me. So I'm grateful to be able to say I heard anything at all!
 
D*mn that's annoying, and I'm 38. (I can usually hear CRTs on mute too though my wife has never been able to.)

What's weird is that I couldn't hear it when playing the link directly, but I put it in iTunes and tried it there... Yow!

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OutThere said:
apparently teenagers and kids can hear, but adults can't.
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Apparently that's wrong. ;) Loud and clear, and also pretty obnoxious. Then again, I've spent my life not listening to loud music....

--Eric
 
Ouch.

I just played it on my powerbook (less than half max volume) and it hurts. And I'm 28, as is my workmate, who arched his back like a cat, very funny to watch.

Maybe I should have warned him first :D
 
I'm 18 and my high-frequency hearing has weakened a lot in the past few years (on my left ear I think). Too much music listened.

*Pointing blaming finger on the iPod*
:p

Could hear the sound quite easily, though.
 
Thomas Veil said:
I'm almost 50 and have high-frequency hearing loss -- enough that occasionally things people say are unintelligible to me.
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That's not hearing loss, that's the result of living on an alien planet.
 
mad jew said:
I heard it easily, it sounded like a TV on mute. It's interesting to find out some people can faintly hear it.
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I agree... that's why I hate if someone tries to be "helpful" in muting a TV if I'm trying to sleep. ARGH! That sound is way worse than just hearing your lame shows.

And that mosquito sound was so obnoxious (3 volume bars on my iMac) that my right arm like, twitched while my left hand jerked to cmd-w that window. :eek:
 
i'm 20 and i hear it loud and clear. my girlfriend, who is 20 too, doesn't hear it and neither does my flat partner, who is 24. i use to hear this sound or something similar when some tvs turn on before the image starts, do you hear it too??
 
I couldn't hear a thing when playing the linked wav (only 1 out of 7 people in our office could), though I downloaded another copy from the link provided and could hear that loud and painful. Obviously, there are several versions/frequencies.
 
Definitely hear it. I was tone deaf as child too. After the surgery things were better but a lot of the time it sounds like I live in Charlie Brown's classroom. Well I guess that's not the frequency that I can't hear.

BTW Happy birthday jsw hope you have a good one :)

jsw said:
And I'm 40 today.
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My sister (12) and I (16) can hear it. My parents (47 and 50) can't. Its funny, I actually found this last night on Cnet (Yes, I somelimes leave macrumors :eek: ) and tested my family...then this thread pops up!






My sister's friends's parents have this thing installed in their front yard that constantly makes this noise in order to scare off dogs. None of the parents can hear it, so if I am waiting to leave after dropping her off I have to wait down the street and everyone thinks I am crazy. :rolleyes:

Here is the version of the sound I heard and is linked from Cnet. The article is here. If the frequencies are different, maybe this one is too...?
 
I couldn't hear it, but I felt dizzy and my heart started beating faster. I'm approaching 41.

From the following website: http://www.fork.com/ringtones.php and following the "mosquito" links, I could clearly hear 16kHz, and 17kHZ made me feel sick, but higher frequencies were inaudible with no apparent physical effects. I could also clearly hear the one in the list labelled "Mosquito".

There may be an issue with speakers though - I couldn't hear any tone above 15kHz on my iPod earbuds. I guess that proves I'll just have to buy better ones. I don't know how good my iMac speakers are.
 
Felldownthewell said:
Here is the version of the sound I heard and is linked from Cnet. The article is here. If the frequencies are different, maybe this one is too...?
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Yeah that one's quite a bit stronger...I put it up in the first post for people to compare. :)
 
I don't have access to speakers at the moment, but I've listened to it before and I can definately hear it. Like others have mentioned I can hear a CRT screen (usually a TV) when its on even when its muted. Its caused me to stomp to the other side of the house and turn the bloody thing off on more than one occasion because its so gawddamn annoying.
 
plinden said:
Oh crap ... I couldn't hear the wav file, but I could hear the one at http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3 clearly ... I think I'm going to puke.

Edit: by the way, if you go to http://www.fork.com/ringtones.php, what's the maximum frequency you can hear?
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I could hear 18,000, but not 19 or 20. I'm just using my 12" Powerbooks crappy speakers though, so I might try with some studio monitor headphones later. :)

I also hate the sound of a muted TV. At school there are TVs that do that even when they're off (mystery...), but I'd walk by empty classrooms with my friends, hear it, and not be able to figure it out. They thought I was insane until one day I unplugged the TV and it stopped. :D
 
-I can hear it, bigtime. Though through these lousy T40 speakers there's a background hum that is almost as loud as the tone.

Anybody know the exact frequency of the tone? Sounds quite a bit higher than a TV whine 16,000hz maybe?
 
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