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Offline Flame

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Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« on: January 05, 2009, 12:59:58 PM »
Ringtones designed so that only the young crowd can hear them (in order to reciever calls,etc, at school and the teachers won't be able to hear the ring).

Anyway, I was playing around with it, and wondered what everyone else could hear.

I could hear the 12khz     50 & Younger, but not anything below that.

How about you?

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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 01:12:09 PM »
I heard the tone at 49 and younger but not the one at 39, which is about right.


on edit I tried again at home on a better computer I can now hear down to 17khz (24 and younger) and just about detect something at 17.4 khz.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 01:25:12 PM »
I could definately hear a tone at the 50 & younger. Everything else I couldn't hear a tone but did sense something. white noise or something like that. A disruption in the force or something.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 03:49:14 PM »
Weird.  I can hear the 20, 21, & 22khz then nothing at all until the 14khz.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 04:13:43 PM »
I have tenitus from iresponsible shooting in my younger years. I haven't been able to hear high frequency sounds since I was in my late 20's.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 04:19:12 PM »
I could hear the 39 & younger but not the 30 & younger - I am 36 - weird
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2009, 04:20:27 PM »
Wow I must have great hearing. I could hear 22khz and hear it still even though it stopped playing 3 minutes ago.  :-) :o
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2009, 04:24:59 PM »
I can hear the ones marked "30 and above", none below.

I think the mosquito ring- tone came about as a social commentary on these things :

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There's a movement afoot in the UK to ban the Mosquito, an ultrasonic anti-teenager device that makes sounds in registers that only kids (supposedly) can hear. The Children's Commissioner for England says that the device -- which has been installed in more than 3,500 locations -- violates kids' rights.

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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2009, 04:31:42 PM »
My minimum is 18 and younger (where it stops at 21khz), but I'm 24.  I've had super-sharp hearing since birth.  It's more of a pain-in-the-arse than some might think.  I can often hear things that no one else (including those my age and younger) can hear.  I hate going to sleep while listening to this annoying little sound in my ear that never goes away.  :(
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2009, 04:35:26 PM »
Sounds like it's useless for me to even take the test.....I have a constant high pitched ringing in my ears. Farm equipment, trucks, heavy equipment, guns, bombs, industry.....it's a dang wonder I can hear anything.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2009, 04:41:30 PM »
Just had my kids try it....the boys could hear them all.   And i discovered that I can hear the bottom 3, as well as the top 3, just nothing in between!
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2009, 04:58:42 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on January 05, 2009, 04:35:26 PM
Sounds like it's useless for me to even take the test.....I have a constant high pitched ringing in my ears. Farm equipment, trucks, heavy equipment, guns, bombs, industry.....it's a dang wonder I can hear anything.

For me, too many damned trumpets and drums. I can't hear diddly squat, saith Mrs. E.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2009, 05:16:14 PM »
49  and younger, but I'm glad to see that I'm not alone among the members here suffering from tinnitus.  I live with hearing 3 separate tones in my head.  :mental:
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2009, 06:33:07 PM »
Quote from: Flame on January 05, 2009, 04:41:30 PM
Just had my kids try it....the boys could hear them all.   And i discovered that I can hear the bottom 3, as well as the top 3, just nothing in between!

Sometimes I read your posts and think you are me. :-)  It is so weird.  Our kids are in the same things at the same times and stuff.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2009, 06:48:13 PM »
My 11 year old can hear them all, but I could only hear down to the 15K - 39 and younger...and that only in my right ear.  (Which makes sense, I shot from my left shoulder, and held babies on my left all the time, so it's far more damaged.)  On the other hand, I'm 49, so hearing 15 K isn't bad at all.   :-)

My daughter is going to kill me if I keep playing them...   :lmao:
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2009, 07:02:38 PM »
I can hear all of them except for the 18-under one (the last one).  At least my ears work.

Dammit.  Now I have a headache.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2009, 10:31:54 PM »
My hearing topped out at 12kHz, which I could barely hear.

There is NO DOUBT my hearing sucks. Too many freakin' gigs, too many trumpets, too many loud-ass snare drums.
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Re: Interesting....mosquito ringtones.
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2009, 10:55:32 PM »
I could hear the 14 khz or the 49 and under.   I could sort of hear some of the others but I couldn't really hear them, they made my ears uncomfortable.

My cat apparently could hear them all and didn't like it.
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