you might need a good pair of headphones for this test

Your hearing rules! You’re either quite young or you’ve looked after your ears.

The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 19.9kHz

Find out which ringtones you can hear!

5 Responses

  1. Diny Says:

    You are a dog
    Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can’t be human.

    The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz

    Then again, i have these: http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM03/Content/Sennheiser/PR/HD-280-Pro-Silver.jpg

  2. olya Says:

    see, i hear a whine at that range, and i’ve got some kick ass phones too… i think its just side effect of the noise? couldn’t possibly be the actual noise as you can’t hear it :P

  3. Diny Says:

    No, its clearly the ring. Its not as high pitch as 19.9, it sounds a bit flatter. I dont really have to turn my volume up to notice it. Even at slightly-lower-than-moderate volumes, I only notice it if im paying attention, but if i’m not (say, I’m paying attention to the sound of the computer), then i get a strange feeling and the computer sounds a bit “clogged” and can clearly tell that there’s something going on. I dont know how rare this is, but I can also tell when a TV (crt) is on, even if the screen is black.

    I think that if it was just the noise side effect, that it would sound like a hiss more than a whine, like when you turn your headphones all the way up but nothing’s playing.

    I think they shouldve added a few over 21.1 just to make it a bit more accurate and easy to tell when your hearing runs out.

  4. scraf Says:

    damn, only 17.7 for me. such a weirdly sharp cutoff, you think, oh thats not too bad, the next one will be a bit quieter, i can still hear it, and then it just stops making sounds. ah, the wonders of listening to your cd player on max for 5 years. now get off my lawn ya damn kiiiids or ill cut ya.

  5. Diny Says:

    So nothing to update?

    How come you never write about those philosophy subjects that you always talk about and write for school (or so you say). I know you like all that, and i’m surprised that you never blog about it, especially with us being such a smart bunch (well……mostly just Scarf and I elaborating).

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