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Mosquito Tone Test, or How
To Tell You're A Young'un |
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Now for those of you who
don't follow pop culture and web trends, et. al, a "mosquito
tone" is simply a 17KHz sine wave that geeky youngsters have
been known to use on their cell phone to alert them when they've
got a text message so the teachers can't hear it. See, studies
say that most of us old folks (I'm over 30 now) can't hear much
above the 13-14KHz range. (See
the full chart of who can hear what.) |
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Here are the sounds for you
to test yourself with (Ren suggests headphones for best results,
best meaning you're still a young'un). They're all 5-second long
.mp3 files: |
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Whipper-snap-o-meter:
11 KHz
12 KHz
13 KHz
14 KHz
15 KHz
16 KHz
17 KHz
18 KHz
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