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Re: Not LBC related sound file grownups can't hear but children

To: Chris K <ckotting@wideopenwest.com>
Subject: Re: Not LBC related sound file grownups can't hear but children
From: "Larry B. Macy, Ph.D." <macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:29:05 -0400
OK, think about that for a minute. A cell phone ring speaker is more  
like KLH reference speakers or cheap computer speakers or . . .???

You decide.

BTW, I can hear it on my cheap computer (Altec Lansings) at work as  
well as at HIGH volume on my MacBook Pro speakers. However, when I  
asked the 24 y/o lady down the hall if she could hear it from 10 feet  
away, she complained it hurt her ears (on the Altec Lansings).

Larry
On Jun 14, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Chris K wrote:

> I think we're missing a variable here.
> I played it on my computer at work (cheap speakers that came with a  
> Compaq office PC) and heard nothing. Played it on my computer at  
> home (expen$ive KLH studio reference speakers) and heard it  
> clearly.  (I have a known high-end hearing loss from working sound  
> at too many concerts in my youth.)
>
> The frequency response (range over which the speaker can produce  
> audio) of the speakers that most people use with their PCs is  
> terrible.
>
> Chris K.
>
> Linda Grunthaner wrote:
>
>> My students gave me this link of a tone that only children and  
>> dogs can
>> hear. I played it and can't hear a thing.
>> http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/ 
>> 20060610_RINGTONE.mp3
>>
>> Lin
>>
>>
>> PS This is the article from the New York Times
>> http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/ 
>> 20060610_RINGTONE.mp3
>
>

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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104


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