High pitched sounds from Television | ADHD Information
Ever since I was a child I've been very sensitive to the high pitch sound occuring when a TV(CRT) is on. Not sound coming from the speaker but from the tube or something else within, so having to walk into a electronics area of a store is some what painful but I noticed that I don't hear the same high pitched sound coming from a PC monitors. And even on adderall (which completly eliminates my depression and anxiety) this high pitched sound still drives me nuts! Does anyone know what could be causing this level of sensitivity? It's worse when I'm addled :(have you seen an audiologist?? get it checked out..
my mother had the same problem, i can't remember the name they gave it but it does exist..
she wears a hearing aid now.. mind you, she is 71!!
Maybe you're an alien adoptee? I saw that on a movie once. I thought it was just trick photography. daviesilly, the poor boy or girl asked a serious question!!!
tsk!!!
[QUOTE=Brookelea]daviesilly, the poor boy or girl asked a serious question!!!
tsk!!!
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See? What'd I tell ya? Look at Fallen's picture. And she can hear it, too.
I wonder if they can hear it on LCD monitors.
It could be a confederacy...
There's someone out there!!!
 LCDs dont work the same way and dont make the same noise.
Some alarm system of jewlery store sometime have that same high pitch sound.
I'm considered an alien to but just from Canada 
tsk!!!
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See? What'd I tell ya? Look at Fallen's picture. And she can hear it, too.
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Urm.
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Ooops, she 's a he....
Still an Alien, though... he can hear it, too...
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Some alarm system of jewlery store sometime have that same high pitch sound.
I'm considered an alien to but just from Canada
Ahhh, an alien alarm system!
I knew it! It's a conspiracy!
Welcome, from Canada.
So is that where the
Aliens come from?
I thought they
came from
Tunguska
 [QUOTE=Auntie]I have a terrible time with high pitched noises coming from my T.V. and other pieces of equipment. I have gotten rid of 2 T.V.'s because of it -some aren't as bad as others.[/QUOTE]
AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!
Auntie's Also An Alien!!!!!
 Hey, notice all the A words in that post? They're all A starters.
Maybe that's a sign m'I alein, too!!!
[QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Brookelea]daviesilly, the poor boy or girl asked a serious question!!!
tsk!!!
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See? What'd I tell ya? Look at Fallen's picture. And she can hear it, too.
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Urm.
I have a terrible time with high pitched noises coming from my T.V. and other pieces of equipment. I have gotten rid of 2 T.V.'s because of it -some aren't as bad as others. [QUOTE=Davidornado] [QUOTE=Brookelea]daviesilly, the poor boy or girl asked a serious question!!!
tsk!!!
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See? What'd I tell ya? Look at Fallen's picture. And she can hear it, too.
I wonder if they can hear it on LCD monitors.
It could be a confederacy...
There's someone out there!!!
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someone needs to spank you davieboy!!!
Yup. I have the same thing. It's quite common if your ears have the range for it. I dont think it's ADD related or anything particularly special, we're just a little more aware of the top register.
It isnt tinitus, which is where the ear's malfunctioning and creating weird whistles and pops, although sometimes people think you suffer it just because they can't hear that annoying high pitched noise that you can.
For those that aren't horribly aware of it, the noise as you turn the tv that starts low and quickly ramps up as the picture fires up (especially noticible on older tvs that start slower) is where it starts, it then sits up in the very high KHz range and drives those of us with sensitive hearing crazy.
It's actually the flyback transformer in your TV that causes the whine, right around the 20khz mark basically take the Hz of your TV and times it by the scan lines. 30x525 = 15750 Hz. Your PC monitors tend to run at much higher resolutions and frequencies. Although I can make myself sick just by turning my computer down to 60hz and 640x480.
I also notice it from other electronics if i'm really sensitive that day. When youre ADDled it's may just be because your brain doesnt block all the crap it usually does, so you're aware of most noises.
It gets really interesting when you get overly sensitive to feeling electromagnetic fields generated by high voltages.
can't everyone hear that noise? I can tell if a TV's on from another part of the house--even if it's on mute.....I thought everyone could.. no??
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It's actually the flyback transformer in your TV that causes the whine, right around the 20khz mark basically take the Hz of your TV and times it by the scan lines. 30x525 = 15750 Hz. Your PC monitors tend to run at much higher resolutions and frequencies. Although I can make myself sick just by turning my computer down to 60hz and 640x480.
I also notice it from other electronics if i'm really sensitive that day. When youre ADDled it's may just be because your brain doesnt block all the crap it usually does, so you're aware of most noises.
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Glad to see some people who are like me in this regard!
It came in handy when I fixed computers - I could walk into a bank and go right to the CRT with the screen issues just by following the "Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound. Nobody else seemed to notice until it was melting inside and screaming in their range.
Sadly these days my ears aren't so tuned. I have tinitus - which has been with me since 17 but is worse as I get older. My last audiologist test showed 10 percent loss since I started my factory job (have to be tested yearly). I go in the sound booth for the test and once it's quiet the whining is overwhelming - it's another reason I fear being in quiet spaces it's so loud then. When other noises are present the tinitus is almost silent.
I wear earplugs and I know it's just progressive as age comes along. Eventually I'll hear clearly only the whine but hey that's life.
But I still remember going into a TV store and plugging my ears from all the whining and having people look at me like I was alien. LOL - ah the memories.
- Glen
oh, NO!
Feline aliens, now!!!
[QUOTE=happycat]can't everyone hear that noise? I can tell if a TV's on from another part of the house--even if it's on mute.....I thought everyone could.. no??[/QUOTE]
NOPE!
As a kid I'd walk where there was TVs or CRTs with my parents and ask them "what's that sound - it's loud and annoying!" and they'd say they can't hear it and quit asking. That was when I realized I was a different cat from my parents. The first thing anyway there was so many ways I differed.
As I've said though it came in very handy when I got into computer repair. Many times a machine with monitor would come in or I'd go on-site and I would know before doing anything that they'd have to replace the monitor. Flybacks aren't worth fixing most times - a new monitor isn't as much when you factor in labour. Most times I wouldn't mention my "talent" - I coudn't explain how I could hear it so why open that box??
Funny how so many of us can hear it - it's either we have that "talent" of not being able to inherently ignore subtle sounds or we have the access to that frequency and they don't . Wierd. Thanks to LCDs in offices and banks I don't hear it much now - ahhh the peace!
- Glen