How's your ultrasonic hearing?

[Sweetpea]

Hmm, I can hear up to 12Khz and I can hear the 17.7Khz and 18.8Khz, I can barely hear. Everything in between, I can't hear.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Hmm, I can hear up to 12Khz and I can hear the 17.7Khz and 18.8Khz, I can barely hear. Everything in between, I can't hear.

That's what I get too, without my hearing aids. But with them I can hear all the tones. I guess that's why the damn things are so bloody expensive! They have to filter out the stuff I can hear, while boosting up the stuff I can't! Made all the tones just about of equal volume. I'm very glad that this site showed up. Renews my faith in technology actually being worth the money.

(Of course I still can't hear my wife when she tells me to take out the trash.)

Stitchawl

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

That's what I get too, without my hearing aids. But with them I can hear all the tones. I guess that's why the damn things are so bloody expensive! They have to filter out the stuff I can hear, while boosting up the stuff I can't! Made all the tones just about of equal volume. I'm very glad that this site showed up. Renews my faith in technology actually being worth the money.

It may have something to do with the fact that I always hear a faint rustling noise in my ears.

I wonder what those youths these day hear, the ones that always have their headphones fully open...

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

(Of course I still can't hear my wife when she tells me to take out the trash.)

Stitchawl

We have a word for that kind of deafness here... east-indian deaf... A lot of children have that type of deafness too.

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

I wonder what those youths these day hear, the ones that always have their headphones fully open...

The real question should be; 'what will they hear (or rather, NOT hear) twenty years from now?' I blew my ears out as an older teenager listening to loud military noises in Vietnam, "Pinball Wizard" by The Who, and loud motorcycles. Got no one to blame but myself. These poor kids are being deafened by effective advertising. Bigger, better, louder earphones 18 hours a day. By the time they marry, they will be lucky if they can hear their baby's first laugh!

We have a word for that kind of deafness here... east-indian deaf... A lot of children have that type of deafness too.

Oddly enough, although I can hear her when she tells me in Japanese, I can't understand her...


Stitchawl

[wayrad]

12 kHz at 56 (sigh...)

[daffy4u]

The results for this test will change depending on how high your speaker volume is. I just re-did the test with my volume at the halfway point and was able to hear 16.7kHz. Then I turned it all the way up and heard 21.1kHz. All of the volume tests were done on my desktop computer.

[rlparker]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

I bet I'm the worst.

Hoopy Frood?

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, right?

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

...(Of course I still can't hear my wife when she tells me to take out the trash.)Stitchawl

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

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.

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.

[daffy4u]

Originally Posted by rlparker

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, right?

I've never read it, so I'll have to take your word for it. Thanks for the translation, I may check it out one day.

[Elsi]

Originally Posted by daffy4u

Hoopy Frood?

Originally Posted by rlparker

From Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, right?

According to the Urban Dictionary.

A really hoopy frood

In the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, hoopy is defined as "a really together guy."

A frood is defined as "a really amazingly together guy."
An example from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy which discusses the importance of towels is as follows:

"Hey you, sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is!"

But also a music group/band from the UK. See http://www.hoopyfrood.co.uk/

Musically, Frood is the result of a range of influences. The makers struggle to decide on the style and the genre it fits into but little time is spent debating this largely irrelevant question. We simply serve the music and it makes itself, so we can only quote a few critics opinions, such as "Floyd crossed with Sphongle", "kind of like trippy folk music", "a unique multidimensional blend of psychedelic-folk and groovy-electro" and our favourite quote "we suspect the work of hippies".

[daffy4u]

Thanks Elsi. I think I prefer the Urban Dictionary version.

[ahammer]

VR sould be good at this being a dog and all... or maybe it sould just drive him nuts

[krisk]

15.8 at 50, but it wouldn't tell me what it meant