High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...
High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...
High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#0
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. 
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#1
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?"
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#2
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.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#3
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.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#4
Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:24amYeah, I heard it on NPR.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#5
Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:25amI'm several years over the age limit and I heard it just fine. What does that mean?
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#6
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?
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#7
Posted: 6/13/06 at 12:34amI heard it, hmm I will have to ask my family now
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#8
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.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#9
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.
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re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#10
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!
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#11
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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re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#12
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).
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re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#13
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:06amSay what?
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#14
Posted: 6/13/06 at 4:11amI heard it loud and clear and annoying.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#15
Posted: 6/13/06 at 6:20am43 here and I could hear it no problem.
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re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#16
Posted: 6/13/06 at 7:00amIn my 50s, and I heard it.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#17
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?
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#18
Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:50amWhy would I try to hear annoying high pitched buzzing? :P
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#19
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.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#20
Posted: 6/13/06 at 9:54amrath, I suppose it could be considerted proof we're under 30?
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#21
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.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#22
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.
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#23
Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:09amWhat?
re: High pitched buzzing that only people under 30 years old can hear...#24
Posted: 6/13/06 at 10:09amI suspect that they text.
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