Evidently the audiologist wasn't kidding when he told me I had the hearing of a teenager.

[randomness]

This test was quick, but fair warning: if you can hear the sound, it hurts.

Ow.

Created by Oatmeal

(Thanks to orewashinanai)

Comments

[dpolicar]

...in a jar in your basement.

I can hear it too, for whatever that's worth,

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

As I said on Facebook, "Some poor sod is running around with the hearing of a middle-aged guy. Then again, he probably went to more loud concerts than I did."

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

ummm it is not even all that annoying.

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

OWIE.

I heard it too, but with the sound on my computer turned all the way up.

pretty much

[cthulhia]

but, considering how many times I've refused to wear earplugs at NIN shows, I'm dully impressed that I could hear it even then.

[gingicat]

Not I, but I probably do have hearing damage. (At least I['m protected from the worst of the children's shrieking...)

[cerridwynn.livejournal.com]

Jeff and i got really depressed that we couldn't hear the tone -- and then we realized the sound was on mute.

Turns out we can both hear it after all. :-) I'm surprised, actually -- i have lousy hearing.

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

Yup. Ow. Like a TV on mute.

[outlawradio.livejournal.com]

Well that was uncomfortable. My cat hates it too, unsurprisingly. Mr. Radio was not bothered.

[mahjhongg.livejournal.com]

They do this on an episode of 30 rock that aired recently. I thought it was a joke.....

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Oh, ugh. It sounds like a bad fluorescent light, or an old CRT. Gah!

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

We have a Mimio whiteboard capture device at work, and when you write with the capture pens they buzz, but only some of us can hear it. This irritates the person teaching the course with the system (who can't hear it), amuses the hell out of her student employee (who can), and utterly befuddles my boss (who can't hear it either). I can sort of hear it.

And thus I go and try this...

...yup, it's very similar to the noise our Mimio pens make. This one's very quiet though. I do think I'm starting to lose this sound.

I felt so much better when I found out this was a thing, and that it wasn't unusual that I could hear CRTs that were running but had a blank screen. My parents always thought that was odd, but they both have some noise exposure hearing loss.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I remember the first time I heard that the TV whine was something older people stopped being able to hear--I must have been at least 7, watching some science show on public TV--I wondered when I'd stop being able to hear it myself. Not yet, I guess.

[st-rev.livejournal.com]

I could barely, barely hear it. Probably hearing a subharmonic.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

I could hear it faintly and then it went away after a few seconds. Not at all annoying, and very faint.

K, who's 4, could hear it easily and thought it was annoying.

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Ow ow ow ow ow. That hurt. And has set off some tinnitus. Ow.

[docorion.livejournal.com]

Ow. Ow, ow ow. That would make me leave an area rapidly. And my teens are *well* in the wake, thankyouverymuch.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

trowa_barton and I could both hear it. It was more painful for him, though.

[jab2.livejournal.com]

could hear it faintly, but my computer's speakers suck.
i, on the other hand, have got bad hearing, imho, so i'm surprised i could hear it at all.
my dad used to be able to tell us what the radio was saying when the volume was turned down to 0. none of us could tell it was on (no wonder we all endd up with soft voices...)

[kmhoofnagle.livejournal.com]

So many people in your commenters can hear it (myself included) that I wonder where that "most people over the age of 25 can't hear it" statement came from and how the numbers break out year by year. At 40 I hear it loud and painfully clear.

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

I can't *exactly* hear it. With the speakers turned way up, I can tell a difference between when it's on and when it's not, but as someone else said, it's more feeling it than something my brain interprets as a sound.

I had some high-end hearing loss as a child from persistent ear infections, but testing a few years ago said that my hearing was normal or even slightly better than normal for my age in the upper range. I don't think this means that there's been any recovery, but that the normal age-related losses have overtaken the area where the damage-related losses occurred.

[merlinofchaos]

Yeah, ow. I thought I couldn't hear it at first, but then I went to the mp3 directly and...yes, I heard that one.

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

ow, yes, thanks