Only physically.izzarina wrote:Wow...you must be REALLY old!!!!jsluder wrote:I tried it with headphones and the volume cranked all the way up; couldn't hear a thing.izzarina wrote:Ok...that one from Wanderer KILLED my ears when it was on. And that was through my speakers. I'm glad I didn't have on headphones
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Yep, Wanderer's clip sounds like silence. That's on good monitor headphones, on my laptop which hs a much quieter audio output than most computers. Do bats make other sounds than that high-pitched chirping? It high, but not THAT high, maybe I was hearing the bass section only? I'll try listening to a few TVs. Or maybe my laptop is filtering my audio for some reason?Whistlin'Dixie wrote:o.k. I'm confused. Nothing?BoneQuint wrote:Weird. I can't hear any whine or squeal on either of the clips -- just the background noise in the first one, and nothing on the second one.
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I can hear bats. They twitter.Lambchop wrote:Can anyone else hear bats? That noise is right up there with bats.
Since I have poor vision and bats are really fast, I used to walk through near-clouds of them in the early evening, but heard only a lot of high-pitched chirping. Until one flew right in front of my face one evening, I kept wondering why there were so many tiny birds still chirping and what kind they were.
At work, we have bats in several buildings, including the one I work in. Working late one evening, a guy from across the hall stopped by to say it was almost time for the bats to fly out for the night. I replied that I hadn't seen any, but thought there might be some, since I could hear a lot of chirping. He's since acted as though I were mildly possessed.
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You may just be unable to hear it. The inventors of this claim that persons over 25 cannot hear it.BoneQuint wrote:Yep, Wanderer's clip sounds like silence. That's on good monitor headphones, on my laptop which hs a much quieter audio output than most computers. Do bats make other sounds than that high-pitched chirping? It high, but not THAT high, maybe I was hearing the bass section only? I'll try listening to a few TVs. Or maybe my laptop is filtering my audio for some reason?Whistlin'Dixie wrote:o.k. I'm confused. Nothing?BoneQuint wrote:Weird. I can't hear any whine or squeal on either of the clips -- just the background noise in the first one, and nothing on the second one.
Most people I work with couldn't hear it. It sounded like nothing at all to them. Zilch. Nada.
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Equating? Not to my reading. Incidental commentary, yes, but no equating.BoneQuint wrote:Well, of course. It's just that people were equating hearing this sound with hearing bats and the whine of TV transformers, which I CAN hear.Lambchop wrote:You may just be unable to hear it. The inventors of this claim that persons over 25 cannot hear it.
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They do, the bats: they spatterizzarina wrote:Only when they're pixilatedNanohedron wrote:I can hear bats. They twitter.
The screen of dusk
In heard pixels, soundbits beyond the grace of birds
Who are only brash beside them
How is it their batly chitterings sound
Like mildest sparkles, wheeling and flowing
As if schools of silvery air-fish?
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Right. I did not equate it to bats and transformers. They're just high-frequency sounds that I can hear. That Noise, though, seemed a lot higher in pitch.Nanohedron wrote:Equating? Not to my reading. Incidental commentary, yes, but no equating.BoneQuint wrote:Well, of course. It's just that people were equating hearing this sound with hearing bats and the whine of TV transformers, which I CAN hear.Lambchop wrote:You may just be unable to hear it. The inventors of this claim that persons over 25 cannot hear it.
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Well, it sounded like equating to me in these posts:Lambchop wrote:Right. I did not equate it to bats and transformers. They're just high-frequency sounds that I can hear. That Noise, though, seemed a lot higher in pitch.Nanohedron wrote:Equating? Not to my reading. Incidental commentary, yes, but no equating.BoneQuint wrote: Well, of course. It's just that people were equating hearing this sound with hearing bats and the whine of TV transformers, which I CAN hear.
And at least a strong correlation in others. So I hope you can understand my confusion. (I don't want to beat a dead horse, but I've been away, and have re-stumbled upon this discussion).Lambchop wrote:Yes. It's a noise I hear coming from electronic equipment.emmline wrote:I played the ringtone version for my 14 year old, on the iBook, which doesn't have good sound. He could absolutely hear it. Said it was a tv type of noise.