Noise, what noise?

[asterroc]

Go check this out. After the ad finishes playing, turn up your speakers when they say "But now a new genre has emerged," and when there's a girl's knees in torn jeans with a really high-tech cellphone on them. You'll hear (or not) the sound when the cellphone on the table is flashing and before the announcer comments on whether you heard it or not.

[Poll #747684]

I actually did hear it, unlike the one that the_xtina linked to a while ago (anyone remember that link?), but also I was on a laptop then and I have good speakers now (hence wanting the link).

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Okay, now THAT one is just horrible. I see what rosefox meant when she said it hurt. I have to conclude that my laptop speakers were insufficient to play it when I'd seen it before. (Or else there's a few at a few different frequences and the other one actually was above my range.) Ow, I need some advil now.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Some people aren't hearing in too because MP3 files often cut out high and low tones to save space. Especially MP3s of spoken words, such as podcasts.

[iresprite.livejournal.com]

Mm. I could definitely hear it. I'm surprised, since I thought I did quite a bit of damage to my hearing in my yute.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

I'm also surprised that I heard both b/c I keep feeling like I'm losing my hearing - if there's a lot of background noise or the person's facing the other way I sometimes have difficulty hearing them.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Our hearing is sometimes more robust then they think. I should not be able to hear 60Hz having lived with electronic equipment near my head since I was a teen. But I can still hear when an appliance is on.

[rosefox]

Interestingly, I didn't hear the whine (the one the_xtina linked to, I think).