I was at work at a place and somebody played a ring tone and ask me if I could hear it. I said, yeah! It was a high pitch sound. The guy said he couldn't hear it.

Then he preceded to tell me it was the frequency that people over 30 years old cannot hear, but younger people can. I heard about this on the radio. He said young people are downloading it as a ring tone for school and text messing each other, yet teachers cannot hear it.

I'm 30 years old and I can hear it. I tested it on my wife who is the same age as me and she couldn't hear it.

So if you want to download it as a ring tone or if you want to test to see if you can hear it, click below:

http://download.npr.org/ano...atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3

Edit just to add the news link about it:

http://www.npr.org/template....php?storyId=5434687

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Sounds just like the noise a lot of CRT Tv's and monitors make when they are on.

quote Originally posted by 86GT3.4DOHC: Sounds just like the noise a lot of CRT Tv's and monitors make when they are on.

Yeah! I think that's a good description.

I could only hear it when I cranked the volume up.(btw...I'm 38)
However...I've had my hearing tested...and I DO have a mild mid/high frequency hearing loss.
More than likely it's attributed to several years competing in "crank it up" car audio competitions.

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Heck... I'm 50 and I can hear it.
Even with the attic fan running right outside the room where I'm sitting.

Well, I'm 41, and I can hear it plan as day, and it is annoying.

I can still "usually" tell when a tube type tv is on, just by walking into a house, and not even hearing the speaker(s), but the 17,000hz the flyback transformer puts out.

Kevin

quote Originally posted by Wichita: ...So if you want to download it as a ring tone ... http://download.npr.org/ano...atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3

A ring tone? I can hear it, but for my cell phone, a prefer something that vibrates.

Yup, I'm over 30 and I can hear it too. Really annoying sound. Not quite as high pitched as a CRT, but that same type of sound.

i am turning 38 and i can hear it well enough it hurts to listen to it

That just goes to show that teenagers really don't know everything.

quote Originally posted by Blacktree: That just goes to show that teenagers really don't know everything.

Unpossible!?!?!?!

quote Originally posted by Wichita: Then he preceded to tell me it was the frequency that people over 30 years old cannot hear, but younger people can.

Sometimes, maybe more often than that, my wife speaks in that frequency. She must. I can not hear a thing she says.

I'm 53 and can hear it clearly stop and start. As others said it sounds like the flyback xformer on a crt.

Just joining in
I'm 45 and i heard it

39 and can hear it but not clearly. 4 years working on the flightline and loud music has damaged my hearing plus driving with the window down has caused my left hearing to be worse than my right.

I cant hear it on my crappy desk speakers but I hear it just fine with my head phones.

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quote Originally posted by F-I-E-R-O: prefer something that vibrates.

I am sure you do

41 here and I can hear it too. Those kids would not want me for a teacher

Teenagers

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quote Originally posted by 88 Formula: I'm 53 and can hear it clearly stop and start. As others said it sounds like the flyback xformer on a crt.

It's actually continuous.

quote Originally posted by F-I-E-R-O: (I) prefer something that vibrates.

Why is that? Put it in your front pocket and call yourself repeatedly? lol
I am 28, and I can't hear it.
Tympanal Sclerosis.

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Teens with thumper radios wont hear anything by the time their 30, lol. I can hear all the tones...trouble is no cell phone rings loud enough to hear in a very noisy environment, and I cant use vibrate because i usually have so much stuff in my pockets I wouldnt notice that either.

51 here - I can SEE it on the windoze media player screen, but I can't hear a thing. My 21 yr. old daughter hears it fine.

50 years old and my hearing has been damaged through too many years of running heavy equipment and flying in small aircraft. I have no problems hearing it if I turn the volume up a little.

John Stricker

I am 37 and can hear it. It sounds like a needle poking my eardrum.

it really is an annoying sound...
for those who cant hear it

41 and I hear it - even after 30 years in a band!

25 and heard it. Its really annoying!

Thirty, work on 707s (AWACS) in my spare time and heard it fine. I guess my PPE is working after all...

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quote Originally posted by cliffw: Sometimes, maybe more often than that, my wife speaks in that frequency. She must. I can not hear a thing she says.

HA

Well, I'm 50, wife is 47, and daughter is 22. I had them both come in the room and I played it. Daughter covered her ears and said "Owwwwww!!!" Wife looked at her like "What?"

Wife and I cannot hear it at all, daughter said "Shut it off!!!!"

Max

Nada.. can't hear a thing..
God bless uncle Sugar (USMC).. no high tone hearing at all.

try a search here on mosquito. We covered some of this awhile back. Last year some time.
In very short... There is a noise used in malls that the ring tone is based on. The ring tone was done when someone realized that teachers etc could not hear it.

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I can hear it.. Sounds alot like some TV sets that drive me nutz.

Without looking at my screen I can hear the playback start and stop playing too. My ears are ringing now and I'm 48. My son was yelling at me to turn it off.

54 here...and I hear it very clearly

42, and hears it just fine, despite working on flightlines for over 20 years.

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I'll be 36 in a couple of months and I heard it just fine too. It sounds like white noise to me.....sort of annoying, but tolerable.

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21, and its pretty damn painful to hear

I'm 43 and I hear it. in fact, I still have a headache from it!

I thought it was a joke because I played it over and over at higher volume levels and did not hear it. Then my 5 year old comes to the room and asks me to stop it because that noise is bothering him. Even my wife can hear it and she never hears me when I am across the room