Ring tone that's silent to adults?

Cheryl wrote:
On Mon 12 Jun 2006 09:57:12p, Cheryl wrote in
rec.pets.cats.anecdotes ):

I don't get it. Are kids like dogs? LOL It's all over the news
that there is a frequency that kids can hear and most adults
cannot. It was said that when it was discovered, the tone was
used in a store somewhere in Europe that had a teen population
that the proprietors didn't want loitering, so they played this
tone that adults couldn't hear, but it annoyed the hell out of
kids. Weird.

http://news.com.com/A+ring+tone+mean...af+ears/2100-1
1395_3-6082685.html


An experiment - my cats seem to be able to hear this. I can't.
Bonnie in particular looked very annoyed with me when I kept
replaying it. I had the laptop volume turned all the way up.

http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

I am an adult and I can most definitely hear that! Yikes, how
annoying!!! Vino didn't seem bothered though.
--
Britta
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overflow.
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Takayuki wrote:

http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

Aaaaaahhhh!! What is that!!!??? That felt like someone was cutting a
hole in my ear with a dentist's drill!

LOL, if we didn't know before, we now know who the young people are
on this newsgroup.

Joyce --- couldn't hear it
and Smudge --- unimpressed

wrote:

Joyce --- couldn't hear it
and Smudge --- unimpressed

I take it back - I just played it again with the sound up, and could
hear it perfectly. Well, I could hear *something*, anyway. If there
was anything in that sound that I didn't hear, I guess I wouldn't
know that. Smudge was once again not at all interested. I'm sure she
could hear it just fine, she simply didn't care.

Joyce

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:20:38 -0500, "MaryL"
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"Cheryl" wrote in message
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On Mon 12 Jun 2006 09:57:12p, Cheryl wrote in
rec.pets.cats.anecdotes ):

I don't get it. Are kids like dogs? LOL It's all over the news
that there is a frequency that kids can hear and most adults
cannot. It was said that when it was discovered, the tone was
used in a store somewhere in Europe that had a teen population
that the proprietors didn't want loitering, so they played this
tone that adults couldn't hear, but it annoyed the hell out of
kids. Weird.

http://news.com.com/A+ring+tone+mean...af+ears/2100-1
1395_3-6082685.html


An experiment - my cats seem to be able to hear this. I can't.
Bonnie in particular looked very annoyed with me when I kept
replaying it. I had the laptop volume turned all the way up.

http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

--
Cheryl

Interesting. I tried it and heard it. It *is* a really annoying
whine / whistle. My ears must be considerably younger than the rest
of me! BTW, I didn't try it with the cats nearby; it's annoying
enough for me - I wouldn't want to aggravate the cats (who think
they're hard-done-by because AFA they're C, it's WAY PAST DINNERTIME)

Tish

"Tish Silberbauer" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 21:20:38 -0500, "MaryL"
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"Cheryl" wrote in message
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On Mon 12 Jun 2006 09:57:12p, Cheryl wrote in
rec.pets.cats.anecdotes ):

I don't get it. Are kids like dogs? LOL It's all over the news
that there is a frequency that kids can hear and most adults
cannot. It was said that when it was discovered, the tone was
used in a store somewhere in Europe that had a teen population
that the proprietors didn't want loitering, so they played this
tone that adults couldn't hear, but it annoyed the hell out of
kids. Weird.

http://news.com.com/A+ring+tone+mean...af+ears/2100-1
1395_3-6082685.html


An experiment - my cats seem to be able to hear this. I can't.
Bonnie in particular looked very annoyed with me when I kept
replaying it. I had the laptop volume turned all the way up.


http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

--
Cheryl

Interesting. I tried it and heard it. It *is* a really annoying
whine / whistle. My ears must be considerably younger than the rest
of me! BTW, I didn't try it with the cats nearby; it's annoying
enough for me - I wouldn't want to aggravate the cats (who think
they're hard-done-by because AFA they're C, it's WAY PAST DINNERTIME)

Tish

I couldn't hear it with my sound set the way it usually is, but when I
turned it up, I heard it. I agree - it's extremely annoying. The cats
weren't around when I tried it.

Joy

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:06:37 +1000, Tish Silberbauer
wrote:

Interesting. I tried it and heard it. It *is* a really annoying
whine / whistle. My ears must be considerably younger than the rest
of me! BTW, I didn't try it with the cats nearby; it's annoying
enough for me - I wouldn't want to aggravate the cats (who think
they're hard-done-by because AFA they're C, it's WAY PAST DINNERTIME)

I could hear it perfectly well too - it hurt my ears! The cats ignored
it though... I played it several times with them in the room and they
didn't pay any attention to it. Now I know why computer-whine tends to
annoy me when DH says 'what noise'?

Cheryl wrote:

this tone that
adults couldn't hear, but it annoyed the hell out of kids. Weird.

I happened to have two cats sitting/lying right beside one of my
speakers when I read this, so I downloaded it and ran the
experiment. Results:

Normal volume -- I couldn't hear it. Heidi reacted to it, but
Will didn't.

Full volume -- I could hear it; didn't find it all that
irritating. Both cats reacted to it.
--

Wayne M.

On 13 Jun 2006 05:11:45 GMT, wrote:

Takayuki wrote:

http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

Aaaaaahhhh!! What is that!!!??? That felt like someone was cutting a
hole in my ear with a dentist's drill!

LOL, if we didn't know before, we now know who the young people are
on this newsgroup.

Joyce --- couldn't hear it
and Smudge --- unimpressed

I am 48, and could just barely hear it with the volume turned all of
the way up. It definitely wouldn't get my attention if there was
background noise.

--
John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
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On 13 Jun 2006 05:11:45 GMT, wrote:

Takayuki wrote:


http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

Aaaaaahhhh!! What is that!!!??? That felt like someone was cutting a
hole in my ear with a dentist's drill!

LOL, if we didn't know before, we now know who the young people are
on this newsgroup.

Joyce --- couldn't hear it
and Smudge --- unimpressed

I am 48, and could just barely hear it with the volume turned all of
the way up. It definitely wouldn't get my attention if there was
background noise.

--
John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

It doesn't seem to have much to do with age. I'm 70, and actually have a
bit of a hearing problem. As I mentioned earlier, I couldn't hear it with
the volume at the normal setting. However, when I turned it up, I heard it
clearly. I then gradually turned it down and found that I needed just a
little more volume than usual to be able to hear it. OTOH, I suspect that
my late husband couldn't have heard it when he was 40. He was quite a bit
younger than that when there was a cricket in our kitchen. It was so loud
that it actually hurt my ears when I was in the kitchen. He couldn't hear
it at all.

Joy

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 06:16:37 GMT, "Joy"
wrote:

"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
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On 13 Jun 2006 05:11:45 GMT, wrote:

Takayuki wrote:


http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages...0_RINGTONE.mp3

Aaaaaahhhh!! What is that!!!??? That felt like someone was cutting a
hole in my ear with a dentist's drill!

LOL, if we didn't know before, we now know who the young people are
on this newsgroup.

Joyce --- couldn't hear it
and Smudge --- unimpressed

I am 48, and could just barely hear it with the volume turned all of
the way up. It definitely wouldn't get my attention if there was
background noise.

It doesn't seem to have much to do with age. I'm 70, and actually have a
bit of a hearing problem. As I mentioned earlier, I couldn't hear it with
the volume at the normal setting. However, when I turned it up, I heard it
clearly. I then gradually turned it down and found that I needed just a
little more volume than usual to be able to hear it. OTOH, I suspect that
my late husband couldn't have heard it when he was 40. He was quite a bit
younger than that when there was a cricket in our kitchen. It was so loud
that it actually hurt my ears when I was in the kitchen. He couldn't hear
it at all.


Loss of the ability to hear at a particular frequency isn't a function
of age. It is a function of how much loud noise you have encountered
at that particular frequency over the years. I remember reading about
a hearing study done among a tribe of Indians in the Brazilian Amazon.
The elderly folks had just a good a hearing range as the young
children, as they had never been exposed to noise as loud as those of
us in industrialized societies.

--
John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria