I’m 18 and I can not here the 22 khz which is really weird when I was 17 about a month and a half ago, I could here all of them, now I can’t here that one. One thing is that I do not understand is that how does it hurt the ear drum? it dont me. someone in my class has it, and I was like “What is that? oh yeah that Mosquito ringtone” while everybody else started to go, “oh ouch”. I also listen to hard rock music, and I herd that listening to loud things does affect the way you can here the tones.

Also when I play a tone, it attracts my cat, she comes up to me starts meowing not the pain meow, just the “in heat” meow.

I wanna know how it affects you. Do you use it for your phones? and I herd it got banned in some parts of the UK. Just because a store owner wants kids to stop loitering.

Darkmage

Inside one's ear are little hair-like fibres sticking up [I can't quite recall the name right now]. Certain fibres react to certain frequencies.

Upon hearing a sound, the fibres will send an electrical signal to your brain, which translates it to sound. If the music is too loud, though, the fibres will get damaged. They never heal, thus after time they wear down, and one can no longer hear that frequency.

Whenever your ear rings, it means the fibres that pick up that tone are dying, and you'll never hear that certain frequency again.

Anyway, I use songs for my ringtones; the mosquito thing is annoying. To be honest, I don't think that ringtone was included with any of my phones except my old Nokia from about 3 years ago.

So thats why after a concert and standing close or next to the speaker you go home and your ears are ringing.

Posted By Nick on 11th May 08 at 7:58am

 

I’m 18 and I can not here the 22 khz which is really weird when I was 17 about a month and a half ago, I could here all of them, now I can’t here that one. One thing is that I do not understand is that how does it hurt the ear drum? it dont me. someone in my class has it, and I was like “What is that? oh yeah that Mosquito ringtone” while everybody else started to go, “oh ouch”. I also listen to hard rock music, and I herd that listening to loud things does affect the way you can here the tones.

Also when I play a tone, it attracts my cat, she comes up to me starts meowing not the pain meow, just the “in heat” meow.

I wanna know how it affects you. Do you use it for your phones? and I herd it got banned in some parts of the UK. Just because a store owner wants kids to stop loitering.

Darkmage

Depends. Do you blast the music in your ears while wearing head phones? because that was a big problem. Kids were losing their hearing due to pointless crap like that.

My hearing is getting worse and worse also. Mainly due to the fact that I work in a warehouse which is filled with noise from machines, and other things.

Yes I listen to Rock music very loud. including when I am on my laptop. I have always had a hearing problem it isnt just listening to loud music.

Listening to loud music probably isn't helping you much, though.

Posted By Nick on 13th May 08 at 5:51pm

 

Yes I listen to Rock music very loud. including when I am on my laptop. I have always had a hearing problem it isnt just listening to loud music.

. So do i. I blast my stereo. It might help i guess. But DON'T TRY IT EVERY DAY!!!

I have head phones on my head with 9.5 hours of music on my laptop.

Posted By Nick on 13th May 08 at 9:31pm

 

I have head phones on my head with 9.5 hours of music on my laptop.

. Don't you ever get a headache?

no, but the outer rim of my ears start to hurt after 3 hours because of the head phones, I have Skype headphones, were it has both the head phones and mic, and im not used to those kind of head phones, my mp3 player head phones broke, that goes inside my ear.

My ears almost always hurt after having head phones on. Not because it was loud, but because they don't fit in my ear correctly.