High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...
High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...
#0High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...
Posted: 6/12/06 at 11:49pm
Have any of you seen (or rather, heard) this? It's a ring tone being developed for cell phones. Apparently as you get older (about 30) you lose the ability to hear it.
http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/atc/atc_teenbuzz.mp3
I could hear it, but my dad couldn't. Hm.
Beware: If you can't take extremely high pitched and annoying noises- this isn't for you. 
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:20amJason Robert Brown made a great joke about this tonight at Birdland. Apparently a friend sent it to him and he could hear it, and he asked his wife to come over and listen and she said, "What sound?"
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:22amthis was all over the news tonight. it made my ears ring for ever. hopefully soon I'll be old enough to not hear it.
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:24am
Yikes!
Good to know my ears are still young. 
Surprised this is on the news now. The BBC did a story on it over a month ago, I think.
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:24amYeah, I heard it on NPR.
jimnysf
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/10/05
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:25amI'm several years over the age limit and I heard it just fine. What does that mean?
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:28amOoh, er. I'm 32, and I only heard something when I turned my speakers all the way up. Did I accidentally just drive my younger neighbors crazy?
C is for Company
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/16/05
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:34amI heard it, hmm I will have to ask my family now
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:42am
Well my dad is 51, and he couldn't hear it. My mom, on the other hand, is 42, and could sort of hear it.
So I guess it really depends on the person.
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:50am
I asked my mom if she could hear it -- she couldn't. (She's in her mid-50s.) I wasn't even going to bother with my dad, who is in denial.
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:57amIt totally depends on the person. (They said that on the news report I saw, as well.) I could hear it, and MAN, was it annoying. Youch!
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:59amI could hear it, but it wasn't really loud and at first I thought it was just my laptop's hum. Then again, hearing loss runs in my family.
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Mariel
Stand-by Joined: 5/20/05
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 1:25am
My brother and I heard the noise (My brother's exact words: "What is that noise?! I feel like my ears were going to explode.") My 50-year-old mother also heard it with the volume only a little bit up (but she could also hear a dog whistle when she was younger).
Mariel
wexy
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#13re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:06amSay what?
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:11amI heard it loud and clear and annoying.
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 6:20am43 here and I could hear it no problem.
JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 7:00amIn my 50s, and I heard it.
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:49amI may have heard it (and I am def over 30).....of course I turned it all the way up. Is that cheating?
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:50amWhy would I try to hear annoying high pitched buzzing? :P
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:52amIt's a ring tone Rath. Apparently the youngin's are using it to take calls in class behind the teachers back.
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:54amrath, I suppose it could be considerted proof we're under 30?
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:58am
I know it's a ring tone. But apparently people here are going to a site to listen to it. Even though they know it's annoying and high pitched.
I'm all for it if I can't hear it and it's a cell phone ring.
Bluemoon
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/04
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:08am
Over 50 and can't hear it even with the volume turned up to max.
It wouldn't work for my students, though because even if I can't hear the ring, I would certainly notice them answering the phone.
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Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:09amWhat?
#24re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...
Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:09amI suspect that they text.
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