Do you have an old ear??

[TimberTDI]

So can you hear this ringtone?
http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3


NEW YORK - Students are using a new ring tone to receive messages in class ? and many teachers can't even hear the ring.
Some students are downloading a ring tone off the Internet that is too high-pitched to be heard by most adults.
As people age, many develop what's known as aging ear ? a loss of the ability to hear higher-frequency sounds.
The ring tone is a spin-off of technology that was originally meant to repel teenagers ? not help them. A Welsh security company developed the tone to help shopkeepers disperse young people loitering in front of their stores while leaving adults unaffected. The company called their product the "Mosquito."
Donna Lewis, a teacher in Manhattan, says her colleague played the ring for a classroom of first-graders ? and all of them could hear it, while the adults couldn't hear anything.
Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Saw it on the news, 32 years old and can hear it loud and clear. I guess that makes me young at heart and at ear :lol2:

 

[jhale]

thanks Jazzy, now I'm officially depressed.

I must be old

well I still have my eyesight, good teeth, and hair

 

[TimberTDI]

You know I was kind of reluctant to listen to at first. With me having spent close to 10 years in heavy construction and turning 30 next month but it did come in loud and clear.

Although I wonder if I was in a crowded room would I notice it?

Steven

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

LOL with the A/C humming and the kids running around like a tornado I heard it.

 

[jenniebutterfly]

i can hear it. they say that if you are over 24 there is a chance you won't hear it, but i did . my 5 yr old son came running out of his room when he heard it

 

[212jay]

I heard it. Maybe because I had the volume all the way up. LOL

 

[noodleman]

that has to be the most annoying ringtone i've ever heard, but i heard it:lol:

 

[TimberTDI]

UPDATE:

With the volume at 75% I can't hear it out of my left ear. My right is good all the way.:scratchch

 

[TimberTDI]

Disclaimer:
By no way should this be construed as a medical test. If you or someone you know has hearing loss or may be susceptible to hearing loss please contact your family otorhinolaryngologist.

 

[herman]

Damn!!! That **** is piercing man!

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

Good that I can still hear it.

I have been keep on thinking that I lost a lot of my hearing capability since I cannot tell as much instruments in a song as used to when I was a DJ/Audio engineer.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

aaron23 this thing is for you man. cuz you deaf.:biglaugh:

 

[fritz]

I heard it loud and clear (28) but when they played it on the news this morning I heard nothing.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

does it matter how high your speakers are?

 

[ANCHIENT MARINER]

im 39 heard it only in right ear wow

 

[Tonyscoots84]

wow that was a rather irritating sound.... i would bash my phone against the wall if everytime i got a text message that sound would play...

 

[LeslieS]

Oh Man!! 33 and deaf as a doornail. Could not hear it all in my right ear, only at full volume in my left!

Do not fly when you have a sinus infection EVER!!! NO

 

[DEEPWATER]

Am i dead !!!!! ,thats what i would think when my phone would ring and i heard that ,,Geeez next time warn as when you put something like on ,LOL
Some of us can still hear pretty good :wink1:


35 and my ears are hurting now thanks :Thinking: LOL