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Old 07-13-2009, 01:07 PM   #23
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Originally Posted by daffy4u View Post
I bet I'm the worst.
Nope -- with the laptop's speakers, all I could hear was the 8KHz tone. Then I grabbed a pair of very cheap (as in free from American Airlines) earbuds and could hear the 14.1KHz in my right ear, but only 12KHz in the left. (I tested separately with the same earbud.) I didn't bother to go get the Bose headphones to see what they'd produce.

I'm 59, have near perfect pitch, and I have tinnitis -- which may mean that my brain has learned to ignore some of the high pitches.
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You're really getting on a bit

You are either old or have really messed up your hearing by turning your amp up to 11 and listening to Spinal Tap. Or both.

The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 8kHz.
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