How to freak out your dogs

[sholio]

This site should come with a warning: "May cause any canines in the room to panic and hide in the bedroom, and subsequently attempt to trip their owners by trying to wrap around their legs in terror."

You are the typical teenager

You can hear the frequency of the mosquito teen repellent - but probably not for much longer! The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 17.7kHz

Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!

Ha! As an old fart of 31, that makes me fairly cheerful. (There's a noticeable difference, though, between this and the next-lowest tone -- I can definitely hear the higher one, and it's very annoying and slightly painful, but I can hear the next one down a lot better.)

Comments

[ratcreature]

Hmm, are you sure the sound generation is accurate? Because I could hear these up to the 21.1 kHz tone (not the one labelled 22.4 kHz though) and I'm over thirty as well.

[sholio]

Actually, that's a very good point. I have no idea if my speakers are playing the sounds accurately.

[ratcreature]

I mean, I think my ears are fairly decent, because I've always taken care to not listen to too loud music or constantly have earphones in and so on, unlike some people who ruin their ears before they turn twenty, so I'm not surprised that my hearing could be slightly less degraded than average for people these days who constantly torture their ears at high volume, but it's not like I hear dog whistles or anything like that.

[sholio]

Right, same thing for me -- I don't listen to insanely loud music and live in a place with a lower-than-average level of background noise, so it didn't really surprise me that I might get better than usual results. But those are a lot better than usual, and different through the headphones, so ... yeah. I think you're right, it's the speakers.

[sholio]

Oh, interesting! I tried it with a set of headphones and I can only hear up to the next lowest one down (the 16-something kHz).

I bet it's slightly different for everyone's playback equipment.

[ratcreature]

I tried with both headphones and my laptop speakers and there wasn't any difference in what I could hear, except that the sounds are more unpleasant with headphones somehow.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

The 22.4 one is a fake. :) I couldn't hear it either, but was curious as to what the text said if you could hear it and it says you're lying and the file was blank. :D

[ratcreature]

All the more reason to doubt that whatever my computer produced matched what they claim the sounds to be, if there wasn't actually a higher tone that was inaudible rather than just annoying when played on my system.

[naye]

Poor dogs! And - oww. I'm using headphones, which is probably cheating, but now my ears are ringing so I can't really tell if it's an annoying ring tone or just the background beep.

Anyway:

You aren't even a teenager yet!

Your hearing rules! You're either quite young or you've looked after your ears. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 19.9kHz

Find out which ultrasonic ringtones you can hear!

(So, yeah - cheating!)

[sholio]

Hee! Well, I can actually hear higher tones through my speakers than through the headphones. Which probably has something to do with speaker quality rather than my ears.

(Notice how much work I'm getting done here. *g*)

[alessandriana.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting. I got up to 21.1 using headphones turned all the way up, though I'm definitely not a teenager. 19.9 is easier though.

[obsessed1o1.livejournal.com]

i got up to 21.1 and OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! my ears still hurt!! jeez..........

[leesa_perrie]

16.7 was the highest I could go - apparently I am about 20 years old! Hey, not bad for someone who turns 38 in summer!!

But not as good as some of you other 30 somethings... *sulk - okay, not really*!!

[leesa_perrie]

Weird - I tried it again and got 17.7 and a teenager! Must have been the speakers!

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Wow! I can only fully hear 14.9 kHz, so the page correctly tabbed me as a "thirtysomething"; I can tell there's a sound at 15.8, which makes it think I'm in my twenties if I use that answer. Above that, nothing. I wonder if I've lost some hearing in the upper ranges recently? I used to have problems walking past a neighbor's garage: a high-pitched tone went on, apparently because I passed a security sensor or an invisible fence for dogs. I've also had problems with a few cameras with ultrasonic distance locators: I have had masses absolutely destroyed for me because I could hear the camera's sensor during baptisms. (Our current parish won't allow video cameras during mass, for which I am very grateful.)

I haven't noticed these problems in the last couple of years, and I'm in my later thirties. Just wait til you get to be my age, you young whippersnapper! :-)

[jimandblair.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure it's accurate since I apparently am not human. My rating is 'You are a dog' or a mosquito -- a dogquito?

Although, when tested to determine if I was deaf as a kid, it turned out that I did have extremely good hearing at high frequencies and just ignored people.

[susnn.livejournal.com]

Strange. I missed A thru B and then ran the rest to 21.1 making me a dog or mosquito. That's got to be an artifact of my speakers.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Hm, yes - I can hear 17.7 on my regular speakers, and the next one up with headphones on, so I don't know what that means for it. I've always had pretty good hearing, though, and I don't listen to music much (until I got my mp3 player last year I never owned a walkman or any of its ilk) so...