- Couldn’t hear a darn thing.
I have a certain amount of hearing loss in one ear (measles as a child), but nothing.
Regards,
Shodan
Or perhaps that should be
Regards,
Shodan
Clear as day. Pretty annoying.
F, 25.
Yes, I hear it. Very quiet. Aged 50, but I already knew my hearing is unusually good.
I’m freaking 50 and like others on this thread had tried out the mosquito sound when it first got reported on, and heard nothing…but I can hear the tone linked to in the OP. Owwie!
Hmm.
I cannot hear GorilllaMan’s 16k file at all.
I hear the 16.5 and 17 k, but they sound lower pitched than that, and the 17k sounds lower than the 16.5.
The 17.5 sounds WAY higher pitched than the preceding 2.
I suspect this all has more to do with my sound card and my cheap computer speakers than with my hearing ability.
No problem:
15KHz
14KHz
13KHz
12KHz
11KHz
10KHz
9KHz
8KHz
And for reference, the top note on a piano is somewhere around 4000Hz.
Totally by coincidence, a kid in a group I was teaching commented today that she has high-range hearing loss (I can’t remember what on earth got her onto that!) I needed little incentive to fire up iTunes, and she couldn’t hear above 16KHz. The others, however, all could hear something uncomfortable coming from the 20KHz one, somewhat dispelling my doubts earlier about the capabilites of my laptop speakers!
If anybody wants to play around with more frequencies, or different waveforms, all I’m using for this is the free-to-try NCH Tone Generator.
And if you want something really annoying, try opening all those links in different tabs! :eek:
Thanks, GM! As I suspected, I lose it above 11 kHz.
My only consolation is that, viewed in terms of musical octaves, I’ve only lost the top octave. Musical octaves involve a doubling or halving of frequency, for example: 20 kHz to 10 kHz is 1 octave, but 10 kHz to 5 kHz is also 1 octave, and so are 5 kHz to 2.5 kHz, 2.5 kHz to 1.25 kHz, 1.25 kHz to 0.625 kHz, 0.625 kHz to 0.3125 kHz, and so on.
39 here, I definitely heard it, it’s very similar to the whining noise I hear from TV’s and CRT monitors
Heh, I guess my non-wild-teenage-years of not going to rock concerts and listening to music at reasonable volume levels has paid off 
42 and I used to be in a rock band, I could hear the one in the OP loud, clear and annoying.
It looks like I lose it at 17.5
That’s funny, I could hear (part of) it when this sort of poll came out before, I can’t now. (mid-30’s, some hearing loss)
Oh, wait, turn up the volume. Hear it, or rather something faint, probably an undertone. Earbuds will play it, speakers demur.
21, and I topped out somewhere between 17.5 and 18kHz. I don’t find it very aversive, either.
Couldn’t hear a thing in the OP, but had no problem with any of GorillaMan’s links? 
oh, 46, M.
Nada. Cranked the volume full, still nothing.
40
- Yes. Very yes.
42/m
I could hear it–although i had to listen a couple of times to differentiate from the normal electronic sounds in the room. And I’m pretty sure I have hearing loss–lots of loud music in my past; wife constantly telling me to turn the tv down, tinnitus, genetics, etc.
Interestingly, it’s the same sound that used to drive me nuts if I ever went into a Radio Shack when I was a kid. I couldn’t stand to be in one more than a minute or two.
ETA: it = the OP’s sound
44, Female. Couldn’t hear the tone in the OP. On the Mosquito site, I faded out at 12khz: could hear 8 and 10. Figures. I use noise cancelling headphones at work, and have the computer volume and the program volume all the way up to hear my calls.
9 year old daughter in same room: on playing the OP said, “What IS that noise?” She could hear everything on Mosquito.
40 year old husband could not hear tone in OP, and heard everything on Mosquito up through 17khz. He didn’t hear 17.4.
I could hear all of those without any problem. The lower the KHz, the more annoying and piercing the sound. Dude, age 44.
I am male, 48 yrs old in one month, and I can hear every tone given (up to 20 khz) this web page. I didn’t find any of the sounds particularly bothersome but I would not want to dance to them.
FTR, I have a dog whistle, I can hear the whistle, while no one else I ever tested on can. Maybe I am a freak of nature.
I play a lot of golf, and there is a Railroad crossing about a mile from the course. I can hear the bells when the crossing guards are down when no one else can. My group thinks I am nuts.
FTR, I am kind of crazy but I am not hearing things
It’s the kind of “hearing” that used to get me in trouble during medical checkups.
First I feel it in the center of my forehead (think “OMG migraine starting where’s the pills?”) and then I do hear it in my ears, yes, but well… it’s the kind of thing that’s such a combination of “hearing at a very low volume” and “touch” that I need to think about whether I’m really hearing something or not. The only other noise in the room was the computer’s fan and I have a headset on (it’s 5am and I don’t want my neighbors to murder me)
I did switch it off pretty fast because it did hurt.
Female, 40yo; I’m starting to have trouble hearing some deep sounds (ie the other end of the frequency spectrum).
Up to 18.5KHz, then nothing, although if I turn it up really loud I can sense it.
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris