Can you hear this sound?

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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::

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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.