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Or maybe your hearing is just going gimpy?

This ring tone is supposed to be inaudible to older people. I can still hear it, though, and I'm going to be 40 this year. I guess avoiding rock concerts wasn't such a bad thing

(If you can hear it, you'll know it. It's a nasty high pitched whine)

I'm in my twenties, and I can't hear it so much as feel it. It gives me that feeling of changing altitude, right before your ears pop.

can hear it just fine.

I'm ...under 20 and I hear that annoying sound just fine.

I'm half deaf and I can hear it.

26 and can hear it just fine.

Last test I done with a speaker and a signal generator revealed my hearing levelled off at 16Khz. Blasted speaker testing

I can only barely hear it and I'm 16... Probably all the loud screaming music I listen to and the concerts I go to.

Loud an clear for me! Nearly painful.

It is painful to me. Erk!

ACK! mine precious ears!

Nineteen. I can hear it and it's annoying, but it wasn't enough to make me clap my hands over my ears or anything.
On a semi-related note, I complained to my mother once that there was this weird noise, a lot like that one, happening somewhere in the family room. She said, "I don't hear anything, your ears must be ringing for some reason." I said that I didn't hear anything when I plugged my ears, so the sound must be external. She still seemed to think I was hallucinating or something.
Later that day the TV wouldn't work and the noise got a lot worse. She believed me then.

Indigo Violent wrote:Nineteen. I can hear it and it's annoying, but it wasn't enough to make me clap my hands over my ears or anything.
On a semi-related note, I complained to my mother once that there was this weird noise, a lot like that one, happening somewhere in the family room. She said, "I don't hear anything, your ears must be ringing for some reason." I said that I didn't hear anything when I plugged my ears, so the sound must be external. She still seemed to think I was hallucinating or something.
Later that day the TV wouldn't work and the noise got a lot worse. She believed me then.

Yeah that shit used to happen to me all the time in elementary school. I went to the doctors for a check up one time, and I found out that I have some kind of superior hearing, that I can head higher and lower frequencies than normal. I guess that's kharma making up for my horrible vision or something.

I used to be able to hear the squeal from the flyback transformer in TVs and monitors. One that was a little out of whack would drive me nuts. Can't do it anymore.

I have bad vision and bad hearing, but extremely good taste, smell, and touch.

I can taste everything I smell, a bit unpleasant in the bathroom.

I've been seeing stories about this ringtone in the news all day, and yes, I can hear it (just turned 28 last month, too)
It reminds me of the whine some TV's, computer monitors and bad flourescent lighting can put out, all of which tend to drive me nuts.

can hardly hear it.

I can hear that perfectly fine, it's painful and irritating.

It might not be audible to the very elderly, but it's guaranteed to get anyone else to beat you to a bloody pulp.

I can hear it fine, which is reassuring since I've been getting paranoid about hearing loss after forgeting to put my earplugs in once on a rifle range, going to an insanely loud concert, and having tenitus for days after both of those incidents. That and daily wear and tear on the ear drums from being in bands since middle school; trumpets, trombones, drums, cymbals, piccolos, it's all potentially damaging, and I kind of like my good hearing. Hell, I've got to have something, my vision and sense of smell suck, and I really don't know how I'd know if my sense of touch is above or below average.

yeah i heard it.

now my question is...why would you want THAT as your ringtone? hearing it once was bad enough.

-halo

Ack I am old 36 and can't hear a bloody thing, but then again, i tend to have a low level tinitus much of the time esp when my fucking allergies are worse, like they are this morning.