"Teen Buzz"

[skatha]

Okay, who can hear it?
I still can, at age 42-it's that same annoying buzz I heard when camera flashes recharged when I was a teen-it hurts...
and I got about 10 feet away from the computer and I still heard it



http://eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6350

[Gecko]

yeah I heard it, its annoying however I'm not 40...yet :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[bobdea]

at 25 it still sucks

[Jon Dahl]

I'll be 49 next month and it kills my ears.... however, I've always been able to hear the smallest noises, so I get all the noise complaints that come through the shop. Asleep, however, is another thing. Can you say chain saw??!

[skatha]

I had very good hearing at my "out of the AF" check.....still like rockin' to the Nuge, tho....
and Sabbath...
and Zep
can't forget AC/DC
and Metallica....

[Sinecure]

I'm 42. I didn't hear squat. But then again, I often don't hear things that well.

My business partner, who is over 50, heard it fine and found it annoying.

BTW, this news is over a month old. And it is refered to as the "mosquito" ring tone.

[Dave Pushee]

I had to really crank the volume to be able to hear it. If I played anything else at that volume I would have been blasted out of my chair.

I'm 59. Let this be a warning to you all. Don't ever assume that the old fart ahead of you heard/understood you when you said "On your left".

- Dave

[Rusty]

Totally inaudible to me @ 35...but then again I did spend a number of years blowing things up in the Army.

[Jack Michaud]

I hear that sound constantly. In my head. It's called Tinnitus. I don't notice it when there is any amount of ambient noise, but when trying to go to sleep it's annoying. Wear earplugs while riding a motorcycle, folks. Or mowing your lawn.

But even with Tinnitus, I can still hear that ringtone at 32. TV tubes make that sound too. That was one of my favorite things about my new LCD TV - silent!

[Neil Gendzwill]

No problem at 44 but then I'm wondering how well that 14 KHz makes it throught the reproduction chain. Can you get harmonics going down as well as up?

[Pow]

wow thats loud!

[Zcarver]

It's a good thing I dont hear well. LOLOLOL In fact I went to sleep. :sleep:

[Galen]

At 50, all I hear is a continuous hiss and a couple of clicks. Probably all those concerts at the San Diego sports arena in the late 60's and 70's. My ears rang for 2 days once, after an Iron Butterfly concert. :smashfrea
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby! (the long version) :lol:

[carvedog]

from hours spent listening to AC/DC in my misspent youth.

While not loud I heard it just fine. But if I get in a bar with background noise it sounds like everyone has a mouth full of marbles when they talk to me. And they pretend to hear just fine.
:confused:

[Derf]

For me it's the sound a TV makes makes when it's on, except this one was louder.

[bartron]

Yep, loud and clear without having to adjust the volume. I'm 38.


'later...

[bartron]

For me it's the sound a TV makes makes when it's on, except this one was louder.
You're close. The Teen Buzz tone is 17KHz and the sound you hear from a TV is around 15.5KHz.

'later...

[Mike T]

Loud and clear and annoying as hell at age 36.

[Art]

I could hear it but my wife claims I dont hear anything she says.. Male pattern defness to go with my refridgerator blindness.

[tex1230]

couldn't hear a thing...
kinda like when mrs tex asks me to take out the garbage...

[Justin A.]

I hear it no problem, granted...Im 18. I have the same problem as Jack where I always have a bit of ring in my head but I don't think mine is quite as bad. You would be surprised at the amount of everyday items that make those noises: Tube TVs, Camera Flashes, Dimmer-switches for lights, some automatic doors, and the list goes on...its terrible. I have no idea why kids would want that to be a cellphone ring, just turn the bloody thing off when you're in class and look at it after. I would probally yell at the kid myself if I was in class with someone who had that ring that went off.

On a related note, in England there are a bunch of shops that installed a device that emits a similar note, but it's much higher frequency so even most 20y.o.s can't hear it. They put them in out front of the shop to keep teenagers from hanging around and causing trouble.
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[Kimo]

I tried to listen to it a couple months ago and heard nothing. This time, I could just barely/vaguely hear it. At 32, looks like I'm already losing it which is sad because I've always been pretty protective of my hearing. I guess, though, they say the hearing loss is age related more so than damage related. I suspect genetics has a lot more to do with how quickly you lose those frequencies. THANKS DAD!

On the flip side, the sooner I go deaf, the sooner I'll get to stop listening to everyone else.

[skatha]

BTW, this news is over a month old. And it is refered to as the "mosquito" ring tone.
Oh, ya...
I know, but it's slow at "work".....I sit waiting standby for code blues at a long term acute hospital........
Nobody's dying.....

[Phil]

On a related note, in England there are a bunch of shops that installed a device that emits a similar note, but it's much higher frequency so even most 20y.o.s can't hear it. They put them in out front of the shop to keep teenagers from hanging around and causing trouble.

That is how the O.P.'s article started.:rolleyes:

[Alex Walters]

At 16 I can hear it. And I had to leave the room even at medium volumes. My mom just stood in front of the speakers saying "I can't hear anything?"

[Justin A.]

That is how the O.P.'s article started.:rolleyes:

DOH! :smashfrea I didn't even read it, I just read the headline about the cellphone rings and remembered a different article.

[Phil]

DOH! :smashfrea I didn't even read it, I just read the headline about the cellphone rings and remembered a different article.

It is nice to know that I am not the only one out there that does things like this.:)