This drives me crazy, if I walk into a house I can hear if there is a TV on, must turn it off or up!
The difference in breathing of my husband from wake to sleep. Nothing audible really it is like the air around him changes.
I can also hear a side rail on a bed being dropped, a call light being dropped in the floor and the difference between coughs, sleep talking and strangling fom 10 rooms up.
working in a nursing home… my hearing is great I have no sense of smell though
The sound of my modem disconnecting. I have it configured to connect silently, but it always makes a distinctive series of clicking sounds when it disconnects. I can hear it from a couple rooms over with the TV on.
The various sounds a peacock and a few peahens make. One of my neighbors owns a peacock and a few peahens, and they are noisy birds when the mood strikes.
I can tell a Metroliner from an MU2 - both Garrets.
Have trouble telling PT6s apart.
C130 Hercules is an easily identifiable roar.
Airbus sound distinctly different from Boeings.
DC3’s radials are music to listen to.
Yup. Also, if I can only see a silhouette of someone from very far away, I can sometimes tell who they are based on their walk, even if they look the same otherwise. Everyone has their own distinctive walk.
But that’s visual. Back to sounds.
There’s the sound of a contact lens NOT going in properly, which is basically silence, and the sound of when it is working, which is a faint squish. That’s all I can think of.
Great thread. Does anyone remember the scene in The Aristocats when the guy can hear someone sneaking around and knows what kind of shoes he has on.
Although I haven’t heard them in quite a few years, I used to be able to tell a 56k kflex modem from an x2 from a v90 connecting. Kflex was pretty quick, almost as quick as 14.4’s were, but not nearly as fast as my first 2400bps was. X2 sounded like it was going to fail every single time, but somehow managed to pull it out after what seemed like an eternity of dirty screeching and v90 went BONG BONG at some point in the handshake.
I could also pick out an LT Winmodem from being on the phone with someone who was trying to connect to the internet using their second line.
Oy, technical support was a rough gig.
And then of course there’s that “CRACK!!” sound a bullet makes when it passes over your head.
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I can tell certain weapons apart by the cocking sound. M-16s, for instance, are “snkikety”, while Galils have more of a hollow sound.
I can generally tell what dice are being thrown when playing D&D, but that’s a function of time more than anything else - d20s roll longer than d4s, after all.
Ever since 1991, I go tense as soon as a hear an air raid siren revving up.
I’ve come to realize that every door in our house has a different and distinctive sound. As soon as a door is opened or closed, I know which one it is. Of course, everybody probably experiences this.
We live about 4 miles from a small airport. Two aircraft are always distinguishable from all the rest because of a great deal of exposure to each when I was younger. A Bell Long Ranger, since I’ve spent untold hours in and around them as they were our primary mode of travel on the North Slope. Also, a Beechcraft Bonanza since Dad flew one when I was a kid and now my neighbor around back has one. Without even looking up I’ll tell my wife “There goes Bill.”
Not too fancy, but I can tell when someone’s braking hard whether they’l hit something or not, just from the sound.
At my old dorm, there was a random red light outside my window in the middle of the street, meant to help people who were crossing from the outer parking lot to the main campus. Id come back from class around 1ish, and about once a week someone had an accident. Theres something about the sound of someone braking right before they hit, almost a desperate edge to it as opposed to the usual screeching sound. Most of the accidents were fender benders, with the usual ghetto talk and yelling afterwards, but once someone had to be ambulanced out cause their little sedan had been rear ended by a truck going a good 40+.
Or, early Pink Floyd album title (rejected).
I can tell which of my neighbors is entering the apartment building. There are only six apartments and I live on the first floor closest to the door in the lobby to the outside of the building. I can also tell my dogs bark from the others in the building when i’m outside. I can also tell the difference between a North bound L train and a southbound L train.
I can also hear the jingle of my dogs tags compared to those of my sisters dogs when they are all together and i know where each one is and probably what they are doing.
and I can tell when the cubs score a run. I live close to Wrigley Field but thats not that unusual but its a different roar than the roar for a good play
Now that you mention it, you can hear confidence, sadness, hesitance, etc. in a note or melody someone’s playing. I think maybe this is easier to hear on some instruments than others.