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Can you (as a person) hear dog whistles?
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24 Oct 2020, 12:38 pm

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I dont know how to link to it but Wikipedea has an article entitled "audio frequencies" which has samples of tones of each of the 12 octaves up to 16 thousand. You can click play on each to see if you can hear them.

The article says that the 16 thousand tone is what "most TV sets run at".

Humans are supposed to be able to hear up to 20thousand. I cant hear the16 thousand tone, and...I cant even hear the 8000 frequency tone! 8O :evil: .So my hearing must be really impaired!


Do your speakers go that high?



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24 Oct 2020, 12:51 pm

Good question.

I have no idea. That could be the explanation.

A friend was moving and gave me her surplus pairs of computer speakers. So I never saw the packaging with the specs on it.



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24 Oct 2020, 1:04 pm

For decades, I used to hear a "piff" sound on a recording of "Danny Boy." Then I got a better stereo, and heard a very large drum.

Age and abuse from loud noises typically reduce the high range of hearing.

"Not hearing dog whistles" could also refer to not understanding a use of language to covertly encourage prejudice.



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24 Oct 2020, 1:19 pm

Dear_one wrote:
For decades, I used to hear a "piff" sound on a recording of "Danny Boy." Then I got a better stereo, and heard a very large drum.

Age and abuse from loud noises typically reduce the high range of hearing.

"Not hearing dog whistles" could also refer to not understanding a use of language to covertly encourage prejudice.


Your drum thing is the opposite problem. Your cheap stereo couldnt pick up bass (ie the low range), which is where drum sounds live. My conundrum is on the high end. As a rule big speakers are good with bass, and small are good with treble. My computer speakers are small, but still I dont know how high they can go.

Folks on this thread have already quipped that they can hear "political dog whistles, but not the literal kind". :D



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25 Oct 2020, 4:13 am

naturalplastic wrote:
I dont know how to link to it but Wikipedea has an article entitled "audio frequencies" which has samples of tones of each of the 12 octaves up to 16 thousand. You can click play on each to see if you can hear them.
The article says that the 16 thousand tone is what "most TV sets run at". Humans are supposed to be able to hear up to 20thousand. I cant hear the16 thousand tone, and...I cant even hear the 8000 frequency tone! 8O :evil: .So my hearing must be really impaired!

you can't go on what is on youtube, you need uncompressed .wav files for a proper test. there is too much distortion on the youtube for it to be useful. i am positive you can hear 8000, that would be severe hearing loss if you could not, IOW at that point you'd need hearing aids. i can barely hear 16k these days, though as a youth the 15.75 kc horizontal scan whistle on NTSC tv sets was very harsh.