Can you hear this sound?

[Back]

http://trainhorns.net/sound/


Clicking the play button below will produce a tone that is generally only heard by people under the age of 25. It has been used as a deterrent device to keep teenagers from loitering in malls and shops, and sounds similar to a buzzing mosquito. Typically the longer you listen to it, the more annoying it gets.



I can hear it and I am well over 25. For me its most discernible at first then starts to fade away into the background.

[Beguiler]

Well over 25, and I can't hear it at all, but I can sure hear buzzing mosquitoes. <mutters>

[CrystalTears]

Ow ow fuckity ow. Yeah I heard it the second it started and I'm certainly not 25.

[Asha]

30 yrs old and at first it nearly deafened me, my sound was way up. Can hear it all the way through.

I have a message tone on my phone called mosquito I use to piss people in the office off. It's awful.

[Trouble]

I'm 37 and can hear it.

[Some Rogue]

36 and I hear it.

[Alfster]

all i hear is a high pitched squeel.

[Beguiler]

Dammit, does this mean that my mother was right when she used to tell me 'don't you go to those rock 'n roll concerts and stand in the front row, you know you're going to be deaf as a post later, let me tell you, missy!'?

::le crie::

[Back]

Dammit, does this mean that my mother was right when she used to tell me 'don't you go to those rock 'n roll concerts and stand in the front row, you know you're going to be deaf as a post later, let me tell you, missy!'?

::le crie::

Did you try turning up the volume a bit?

It did not occur to me at the time I listened that both my computer and speakers were both set just at middle. I bumped up my comp volume a couple of notches and it was just about blaring.

[Bobmuhthol]

It doesn't sound like the frequency is high enough to really eliminate a lot of the population. I think it's something like 19 kHz that most people over say 30 can't hear anymore.

[mgoddess]

Ugh. I can't stand really high-frequency noises like that! (I can hear TV's from across the house, and they make a similar, if not higher frequency, noise when on.)

Oh, and I'm only a few years over 25...

[MotleyCrew]

39 here and I heard it fine, but apparently I have above average hearing..funny story.

My ex made me go have my hearing tested because he thought I never heard him. So, went for the test, and the doctor come in with the results laughing and said, well, I guess you're just ignoring him, you have way above average hearing. :tumble:

[SHAFT]

I'm 25 and heard it loud and clear.

[Tisket]

That noise makes the possibility of age related hearing loss something to look forward to.

[Gallows Thief]

Heard it fine and I'm closing in on 40.

[Beguiler]

Did you try turning up the volume a bit?

Yeah, I went back and tried it, still nothing. I'll wait until I get home and see if I can hear it there. I notice it's a Quicktime thing, and we don't have that loaded on our work computers. Or..I'm deaf as a post!

[Methais]

I wonder if that's just one of those stupid things that anyone can do, sugar coated to where the user feels like they have some hidden superpower that's just there for the site to get as many hits as it can.

Like sites that are like "Can you answer 1+1? Click here if your answer is TWO, and click here if your answer is THREE!"

I heard the sound, and so did my dogs.

They reacted like this:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/199/454004523_5fb2c074a9.jpg
http://www.aspca.org/pet-care/images-misc-sizes/dog-with-tilted-head.jpg
http://www.maniacworld.com/dog-with-strange-head-tilt.jpg
http://www.mohrs.org/snowpeaZ2A.jpg

[The Ponzzz]

I heard it and so did all three of my dogs who are all royally pissed off now.

[Stanley Burrell]

Ow.

[Fallen]

I can most definitely hear it. Can anyone NOT hear it?

[Nilandia]

Holy crap, that hurt.

High-pitched noises like that are almost physically painful for me. I have to bring an iPod and headphones with me if I need to get a filling from the dentist just to drown out the sounds. Even with my loudest stuff, it's only enough to take the edge off.

Gretchen

[Wesley]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3GMtP6n7pM&feature=related

[Bobmuhthol]

<<I wonder if that's just one of those stupid things that anyone can do, sugar coated to where the user feels like they have some hidden superpower that's just there for the site to get as many hits as it can.>>

The concept is not at all like that. Your hearing range is constantly decreasing over time. This one is just set retardedly low so it's hard not to be able to hear it.

[Junarra]

I'm 39, I can't hear it at all. I spent several years working in a club facing all the speakers as a coat check girl, so yeah, it works.

Everyone else in my house is annoyed, though. :D

[diethx]

Haha, I played it earlier and one of my pooses ran in a frenzy from the other room up onto our bed, across the bed, and onto the top of my chair. She then proceeded to climb all over me trying to get on my desk. It was pretty hilarious. I heard it though, and i'm over 25. And that's saying a lot because my ears are really clogged from my flu congestion.

[TheRunt]

I heard it and I'm pushing 39



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3GMtP6n7pM&feature=related

I want that truck/van whatever the hell it is.


Haha, I played it earlier and one of my pooses ran in a frenzy from the other room up onto our bed, across the bed, and onto the top of my chair.

Just curious but :wtf: is a pooses? Sounds like slang for a vagina and if you have more than one and there able to run across the room in a frenzy well........

[Drew]

Most computer speakers aren't really going to reproduce the sound faithfully anyway.

[Incurable]

I'm almost 30 and that just gave me the biggest pressure headache I have ever had. Granted my speakers were a tad higher than I normally put them due to customers F'ing with them. But in contrast I'm the only one who heard the sound, I'm also the youngest so take it as you will.

[diethx]

Just curious but :wtf: is a pooses? Sounds like slang for a vagina and if you have more than one and there able to run across the room in a frenzy well........

Yeah, it's a vagina. :banghead:

[Parkbandit]

Hear what?