[BC] interesting audio

Mike Erickson wirelessmedia
Mon Jun 12 15:40:46 CDT 2006


Yeah, I can hear it.  It is approx 15kHz and it does start to get to get you
after a few seconds.

Kinda like being able to tell if a TV is on when you walk into a quiet room.

=Mike=

On 6/12/06, Mark W. Croom <markc at kjly.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, this story. I heard this on a national network yesterday, and it
> caught
> my interest then.
>
> I definitely can't hear 15khz like I used to, no doubt about it.
>
> I loaded your mp3 in Adobe Audition, normalized it to -.1, and cranked up
> the headphones. Sure enough, it was there. But BARELY, to my ears.
>
> I also ran a frequency analysis on it in Audition, which is where I
> learned
> that it really was 15khz.
>
> I'm sure I'm not the only guy who has known some people in radio who
> cannot
> hear high enough frequencies to even know when their digital watch alarm
> is
> beeping. Personally, I can't imagine being that deaf (though I suppose
> it'll
> happen in enough years). I try to be very cautious about how much I crank
> up
> those headphones on a routine basis.
>
> Mark
> MN
>
>


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