If you have teenagers you need to try this!

[Hardtack]

I`ve been torturing my 18 yr, old son for hours lol.
I my self only here silence.

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/02/hearing-test-hear-like-teenager/

This is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

 

[DrinksWellWithOthers]

I can just barely hear it with my laptop speakers turned all the way up and only in my left ear. Even then, its some annoying sh!t. I've heard about malls and shopping plazas using them to thwart teenage loiterers and always wondered what it sounded like.

 

[Hardtack]

I actually thought it was some fake **** ,till my son came in the room, i played it ,
He made a really weird face and started ow! ow! turn that off ,what are you doin,ah! ah!

now i can`t stop playin it hehe!

 

[Baja_Brewer]

That's ****ing annoying

 

[zman]

I can hear it although I am not too annoyed by it

 

[passedpawn]

Freaking annoying.

 

[Rick91981]

I can hear it (28) but it isn't super loud to me.

 

[Fingers]

I'm 45 and it's too loud and annoying to be playing properly on my laptop. There must be some kind of frequency translation or something going on.

 

[brewingkitty]

Jeebus! trying to make me tone deaf? i NEED to hear the highs!

 

[JOHN51277]

I turned it off a minute ago and my ears are still ringing!

 

[ChshreCat]

I can hear it, and it's annoying and on the verge of painful in one ear, but it freaked out my daughter, wife and my dog!

This is awesome!

 

[SpanishCastleAle]

Can't hear it over the ringing that's already going on, and always goes on. Tinnitus sucks.

 

[Homercidal]

OUCH! At first I thought I was going deaf, because I thought the page loaded the sound automatically. When I realized I had to click the link, it felt like someone was jabbing a pin in my ears! I think I can still hear it!

 

[Hang Glider]

I'm 51 - I got nothing. Went to the next link - what CAN you hear? - mine stops at 10. can't hear 12. That sucks. Too much loud rock and roll in my youth, I guess...

 

[beergears]

On same site, there is an extended hearing test. In the Comments section, it was pointed out that the whole thing is highly dependent of your sound cards/speakers, and secondarily on the use of MP3s intstead of a "richer", less lossy format.

Between my ear-ringing/hearing loss, and the sound card from the town reuse&recycle( aka the dump), not much going here...

 

[LambChop4Prez]

Its funny because lots of teenagers use this as their ringtone so they can text in class and the teachers usually can't hear it.

 

[CodeRage]

audible ice pick to the brain!

 

[homebrewer_99]

I got the 8 and 10, but nothing after that...

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Hmmm I'm 46 and I heard it just fine. And on the other test I heard up to 15.

 

[ChshreCat]

I just transferred this to my phone. Gonna set it on a loop at the college when the hackey slackers are around.

 

[DavidSteel]

ow, that was terrible

 

[nealf]

ow, that was terrible

+1... that sucked

 

[Egghead]

I'm 39. It's right on the verge of being audible for me. At some points, I heard a high-pitched squeal, at others, nothing. However, I felt pain in my ears the whole time.

 

[adx]

30 here and that sucked. It was *really* loud. Ugh.

 

[brewingkitty]

I'm 51 - I got nothing. Went to the next link - what CAN you hear? - mine stops at 10. can't hear 12. That sucks. Too much loud rock and roll in my youth, I guess...

i can hear 8 through deuce-deuce thou.. i got that "hifi" hearing package yo!

 

[Yuri_Rage]

SWMBO and I both heard and despised the annoying tone, even at low volume. Both of us determined our thresholds based on the "what CAN you hear" link to be somewhere between 17 and 18 kHz. We're both over 30. My job requires exposure to lengthy periods of nearly deafening high frequency noise (with proper hearing protection in place).

I'm using a fairly recent on-board audio card and mid-quality Logitech speakers. I've always been somewhat impressed with my computer's sound quality given my minimal investment in hardware.

 

[Wade E]

I have a slight hearing problem in my right ear and on my laptop with the volume all the way up couldnt hear it unless I put the speakers right up to my left ear and Im 40 this coming month. I work in a wood shop though so Im sure that even my hearing in my good ear probably isnt the greatest either.

 

[jmendez29]

That was awesome. I tried it at work a couple days ago but the speakers there are crappy and I couldn't hear anything. But I just tried it on my laptop. It gives me the feeling like my fillings are tingling a little bit, but nothing I can't handle. My son came home from school and I turned it on without telling him. He immediately started complaining about how much it hurt. I now have it as a link on my desktop.

Thanks a million. This will keep me entertained for at least a couple weeks.

 

[neovox]

Kids were using this tone as a ringtone in school for a while b/c they could hear it but often times the teachers could not.