Why Old Screens Make A ᴴᶦᵍʰ ᴾᶦᵗᶜʰᵉᵈ Noise [Tom Scott] - General

18000 for me, though if it makes sense I can [i]feel[/i] audio playing if I pause and start after that point, with a perceived "I know there's sound there but I'm not hearing a tone" til 1900, then it's just like, air pressure trying to find a good example of my tinnitus but the sound is too harsh here, and also mine plays a bit of a chord. wasn't there a website where you could tweak up multiple samplers to reproduce your tinnitus to explain to people/your doctor? I need that

Interesting, I can't hear anything just past 17000

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;52455564]Wow, I can't hear it. I was sure I'd be able to hear it. [editline]10th July 2017[/editline] Shit, according to this: [video=youtube;H-iCZElJ8m0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iCZElJ8m0[/video] I can't hear anything past 15600Hz[/QUOTE] Fuck me, it just cut out completely at 14kHz. I didn't think my hearing was this bad.

[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;52455244]That clip you play sounds identical to me all the way through, and I'm 24. But then, I've never been good at picking up high frequencies. I remember in 9th grade, around 13 years old, my science teacher had an oscilloscope or something brought in, and we did an experiment where everyone held their hands up until they couldn't hear the high pitches, and then again the low pitches. I was one of the first to drop with the high pitches, and the last to drop with the low pitches. So this doesn't really surprise me.[/QUOTE] It's cut between 17000 to 18000 so it doesn't surprise me.

Funny how something this simple gives us the urge to check and prove to ourselves that we still have time, that we haven't "aged" just yet.

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;52455564]Wow, I can't hear it. I was sure I'd be able to hear it. [editline]10th July 2017[/editline] Shit, according to this: [video=youtube;H-iCZElJ8m0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iCZElJ8m0[/video] I can't hear anything past 15600Hz[/QUOTE] youtube compresses audio so higher frequencies are filtered out/sound different

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;52455564]Wow, I can't hear it. I was sure I'd be able to hear it. [editline]10th July 2017[/editline] Shit, according to this: [video=youtube;H-iCZElJ8m0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iCZElJ8m0[/video] I can't hear anything past 15600Hz[/QUOTE] 23, stopped right around 18,000Hz Funny considering my friends shit on my poor hearing in conversations :v:

[QUOTE=a-k-t-w;52455785]youtube compresses audio so higher frequencies are filtered out/sound different[/QUOTE] Yeah this video cuts out at around 17000hz [img]http://i.imgur.com/KTvEP6h.png[/img] This site has some wave files for testing, goes up to 96khz [url]http://www.audiocheck.net/testtones_highdefinitionaudio.php[/url]

[url]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/url] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out. it's 14.6 khz for me. I'm old.

it also depends on your audio equipment. some speakers and headphones only cover a certain range.

[QUOTE=butre;52455966][url]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/url] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out. it's 14.6 khz for me. I'm old.[/QUOTE] crazy sit starts to happen if you use an auto clicker to spam play/pause, while holding left/right on your keyboard at the same time

[QUOTE=butre;52455966][url]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/url] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out. it's 14.6 khz for me. I'm old.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I stop hearing anything at 15,815 Hz using that and I'm only 28. At around 15,500 it's so faint I can barely make it out.

[QUOTE=butre;52455966][url]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/url] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out. it's 14.6 khz for me. I'm old.[/QUOTE] at 17 i can hear any frequency above 5Hz. anyone who cant hear the higher ones, consider yourself lucky because its actually physically painful to

[QUOTE=butre;52455966][url]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/url] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out. it's 14.6 khz for me. I'm old.[/QUOTE] Something seems very wrong, because I can totally hear the sound at its maximum frequency: 20,154 Hz.

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;52456196]Yeah, I stop hearing anything at 15,815 Hz using that and I'm only 28. At around 15,500 it's so faint I can barely make it out.[/QUOTE] Only 21 and I'm at 14.4khz

I have insanely selective hearing. Sometimes I can't hear what a person I swaying right in front of me and sometimes I can hear them quietly mention me from across a big room, past furniture. It's the butt of many jokes.

[QUOTE=Coyoteze;52456306]I have insanely selective hearing. Sometimes I can't hear what a person I swaying right in front of me and sometimes I can hear them quietly mention me from across a big room, past furniture. It's the butt of many jokes.[/QUOTE] You shall make a most excellent husband to some lucky girl someday. You have mastered the skill even before you got a partner! :v:

[QUOTE=LuaChobo;52456279]I lose it at 19,364 i cant tell if i should be proud 22 years old i can still "Hear" it at 20,154 but its pretty much as close to being nothing as it can get, sorta like passive sounds in a quiet house[/QUOTE] hearing loss isn't a hard cut, but past a certain frequency you start dropping off and losing sensitivity to higher frequencies. the frequency where you have a 5 dB cut is is probably the most useful medically, as that's a 25% loss of sensitivity.

[QUOTE=Protocol7;52453713]Yeah, I can't play games like CSGO anymore. I'm getting older, [B]my reaction times are shit[/B], and I'm old enough that I can't comfortably be part of a community that will still lambaste me for doing my best - as bad as that may be.[/QUOTE] I hope you're not implying the game's not for you due to your bad reaction caused by age, because that'd be cause for alarm at such a young age. [editline]11th July 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Nabile13;52456229]Something seems very wrong, because I can totally hear the sound at its maximum frequency: 20,154 Hz.[/QUOTE] I'm thinking the tone must be making my headphones generate a lower frequency noise because I had no issues whatsoever hearing the max.

Not like that high frequency hearing is dramatically useful anyway.

[QUOTE=LuaChobo;52456466]only real use is being to tell when something that operates at that frequency is nearby, which is only really useful when you are trying to avoid it[/QUOTE] the world's worst superhero "stop right there, evil-doer. i'll have you know i sense a CRT monitor in this general area"

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;52456496]the world's worst superhero "stop right there, evil-doer. i'll have you know i sense a CRT monitor in this general area"[/QUOTE] The superhero whose powers are only effective against stopping Retroman [sp]and pentium[/sp]. :v:

[QUOTE=butre;52455966][URL]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/URL] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out.[/QUOTE] Being self conscious of my hearing and listening to everything at low volume all my life has paid off; got to 19,500 Hz thereabouts without any trouble. I can barely make it out at 20,154 Hz but that could just be the pressure or maybe I just need to increase my volume. Up to about 15,000 I was listening at 1% on the site no problem then had to go 100% for 19,500, but my volume mixer itself I have hard capped at 50% so even when anything else is maxed it's only ever going to be as loud as that. Don't really care enough though to test it. I'm happy with where I'm at for my age. [QUOTE=Coolboy;52456447]Not like that high frequency hearing is dramatically useful anyway.[/QUOTE] Not generally I'd say, but it [I]has[/I] helped me identify pinging problems with my car that my father and his friends couldn't hear. In fact they thought I was "hearing things" until we checked thoroughly and found an issue, but I can't blame them since most of them spent half their life working in ridiculously loud factories—their hearing is completely shot.

I found a treatment for tinnitus that works for many: [QUOTE][QUOTE][video]https://youtu.be/2yDCox-qKbk[/video][/QUOTE] Place the palms of your hands over your ears with fingers resting on the back of your head. Your middle fingers should point toward one another just above the base of your skull. Place your index fingers on top of you middle fingers and snap them (the index fingers) onto the skull making a loud, drumming noise. Repeat 40-50 times. Some people experience immediate relief with this method. Repeat several times a day for as long as necessary to reduce tinnitus. Dr. Jan Strydom, of A2Z of Health, Beauty and Fintess.org.[/QUOTE] It relaxes the suboccipital muscles, which mainly affects those who developed tinnitus from any loud noises. [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/3l54rd/reddituser_amazes_with_cure_for_tinnitus/[/url]

[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;52455564]Wow, I can't hear it. I was sure I'd be able to hear it. [editline]10th July 2017[/editline] Shit, according to this: [video=youtube;H-iCZElJ8m0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iCZElJ8m0[/video] I can't hear anything past 15600Hz[/QUOTE] I'm 28, stops at around 5500Hz. I was born with it, no worries there. [editline]11th July 2017[/editline] Also, I have tinnitus, deuteranopia AND extreme visual noise against dark colors (nights are wild). Just the perfect specimen, eh?

I'm 18 and can't hear any of this above 14kHz. I'm hoping its just my headphones and not my awful hearing.

[QUOTE=Axznma;52456564]Not generally I'd say, but it [I]has[/I] helped me identify pinging problems with my car that my father and his friends couldn't hear. In fact they thought I was "hearing things" until we checked thoroughly and found an issue, but I can't blame them since most of them spent half their life working in ridiculously loud factories—their hearing is completely shot.[/QUOTE] Didn't say it is always utterly useless, just that there are very rare cases where it is helpful, most times I hear something at that high frequency, it's mostly annoying more then anything else. Like hearing the downstairs big-screen CRT TV the whole night because grandpa didn't shut it off and as a result not getting enough sleep as a kid. Again, worlds shittiest superpower. [editline]You read this in high pitch[/editline] In retrospect: Now I realize why I always slept like a rock when I had music on my headphones, when I was young. Huh.

-nvm-

[QUOTE=butre;52455966][url]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/url] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out. it's 14.6 khz for me. I'm old.[/QUOTE] good to know that the tinnitus I have is over 19k that's totally not annoying at all and not the reason why sleeping is difficult. [editline]11th July 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Talvy;52456596]I found a treatment for tinnitus that works for many: It relaxes the suboccipital muscles, which affects those who developed tinnitus from any loud environments. [url]https://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/3l54rd/reddituser_amazes_with_cure_for_tinnitus/[/url][/QUOTE] holy shit that actually worked, it's not so loud anymore thanks

[QUOTE=butre;52455966][url]http://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/[/url] use this site for finding where your hearing gives out. it's 14.6 khz for me. I'm old.[/QUOTE] 17000 seems to be the point where I can't tell if it's my tinnitus or if it's still audible.