Strange question, yo (or totally normal for GD)..

PapaLazaru · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:43

Edrof said:
I've been able to tell whether a TV or similar appliance is on or not by hearing a faint, high-pitched whine or hum.

I can hear a TV on standy. Have always been able to regardless of who's house I am in. We just have good, dog like hearing.

Cosimo · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:43

I have exceptionally good hearing but I don’t pick up electrical noises.

Skidder · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:47

I hear dead tellies.

Curunen · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:49

Yes, which is why I switch everything off at the wall when not in use, if possible. Really irritating noise.

Greboth · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:50

Vonhelmet said:
Yes, I can hear them.

My parents were also surprised that I could hear their ultrasonic cat scare-o-tron in their garden.

This, keep getting asked if the cat scare-erer is working or not.

I don't think it is a male / female thing as I know when me and my sister lived at home she could hear it too. The funny look is when you get something that turns on/off itself and you know it comes on because a sudden prescence of a high pitched noise.

Brookert · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:51

I can hear next doors crappy tv through the wall....eeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiiii

Hearing high ptched frequencies is to do with age, younger = better

tidusjar · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:52

I can with like CRT's and stuff but i haven't heard it in a while... I think I have lost my power.

kingy666 · 2 Dec 2011 at 18:54

You can hear the '50Hz hum'. Google it.

Spark in da' house

Wej · 2 Dec 2011 at 19:19

HardwareGeek said:
I Tbh i can hear dimmers, trannys and stuff of poor quality or with a fault, anything that makes noise really, can hear those sonic pet / rodent plug in scarers.

When they're still, or moving? Do trannys sound different to normal people?

King Damager · 2 Dec 2011 at 19:37

Yup, can hear electric static. Most frequently recently the light bulb in my room....

kd

kylew · 2 Dec 2011 at 19:43

I hear the static from CRT TVs and weirdly people/creatures. I can tell if my cat comes in the room, or at least used to anyway. I haven't been around a CRT in long time now though so I don't know if I can still hear the static from them.

Reaper 392 · 2 Dec 2011 at 19:49

some things i can hear, but not everything. theres a projector in one of the lecture theatres im in sometimes that drives me nuts, and everyone else is looking at me as if im weird. same thing with a couple of the laptops people bring into lectures

mrk · 2 Dec 2011 at 19:52

I can hear them too but it doesn't bother me, it;s kind of relaxing. If I'm in the middle of nowhere (sometimes I am

) it's just pitch perfect silence but if I'm in a house or built up area and I focus my ears I can hear background whine, like a muted TV noise but sort of /everywhere/.

kylew · 2 Dec 2011 at 19:54

mrk said:
I can hear them too but it doesn't bother me, it;s kind of relaxing. If I'm in the middle of nowhere (sometimes I am ) it's just pitch perfect silence but if I'm in a house or built up area and I focus my ears I can hear background whine, like a muted TV noise but sort of /everywhere/.

I hate perfect silence because things start to seem really loud. It's like when it's perfectly silent I start to hear my pulse in my ears and a faint strange ringing.

I think that's why I sleep with a fan on, I like a constant droning sound that you can "tune out" but it's still there in the back ground. Seems like true silence that way.

NeoReloaded · 2 Dec 2011 at 19:55

Us overclockers are gifted! Any one notice how it started the day you joined the forums?

flibbage0 · 2 Dec 2011 at 20:17

Some earlier plasma tv's did make quite a bit of noise. You couldn't hear it while watching something at a normal distance, but if you got any closer it was definitely audible.

Mr Gimp · 2 Dec 2011 at 20:25

My 2405 squeals a little if I have simply turned it off rather than let it go to power save and then switch off after shutting down the computer. My missus reckons I'm mental but I can hear it!
Also, my old Sony Ericsson charger if not plugged into the phone would keep me awake.
I can also hear CRT noise, those stupid cat scared things, inverters in laptops and all sorts!

trigger-happy · 2 Dec 2011 at 21:54

Yea I can head that static too. Use to be from my old CRT TV. Still sometimes hear it around london =z

Deadbeat · 2 Dec 2011 at 21:56

Yup, I can. A lot of people lose the ability to ehar higher frequencies with age - there's certain alarms on a few supermarkets around here which let out a constant high pitch noise to drive away kids, but the vast majority of adults can't hear em.

Dasheh · 2 Dec 2011 at 21:58

Vonhelmet said:
Yes, I can hear them.

My parents were also surprised that I could hear their ultrasonic cat scare-o-tron in their garden.

Oh god, those cat things are horrible. There's one on my way home and I want to cry every time I walk past it, it's a horrible frequency.