Oh, yeah, I can hear that. Which is I guess why I started to hear our old TV's buzzing long before my housemate did. And his Playstation (or Wii or XBox) can also get really "loud". Computers and other electronic devices drive me batshit in general. I can't wait until I move and live in a no-charger, no-gadget household again.

So it's just an annoyance I should get used to? Ugh. It drives me nuts.

I read about a recording engineer (for rock music) who had tinnitus so bad (from decades of engineering all that loud rock and roll the kids listen to these days) he needs a white-noise generator to get to sleep.

My tinnitus mostly bugs me if there's little or no other noise.

Yeah, when we moved in here I was kinda hoping for no ambient noise. But we're pretty gadget heavy, so although I know what all the various high pitched noises are, they're still there. And I had to roam around the house at 3 am one recent morning until I discovered that the new noise was being caused by a new battery charger we'd just purchased.

I can hear the teenager sound. It seems odd to me, that doesn't really sound like something that should be beyond the perception threshold of lots of people, it's kind of like a can opener running in another room.

I can hear the teenager sound. It seems odd to me, that doesn't really sound like something that should be beyond the perception threshold of lots of people, it's kind of like a can opener running in another room.

Yeah, my boss and I were thinking that can't be the actual teenager-only sound.

Or maybe I should have updated my Quicktime when IE asked me....

I can hear the teenager sound, too. But I've been deaf in one ear since I was four, so I've always been pretty protective of the remaining one.

I also hear the TV hum and have trouble following conversations when there's a lot of background noise.

I'm glad I'm not the only one with difficulty hearing conversation with background noise.

There needs to be more quiet bars.

Water running in a toilet tank! That's the closest analog I can think of to the sound. I can see how people who've had hearing damaged by a lot of loud noise wouldn't be sensitive to sound that quiet, but it seems like it's within normal frequencies instead of ultra- or infrasonic.

Yeah, my boss and I were thinking that can't be the actual teenager-only sound.

I think you're right, if I can hear it then that sound is definitely not cool enough for teenagers.

There needs to be more quiet bars.

Sometimes, when I'm in a restaurant where it seems like every freaking flat surface is tiled, I feel like the interior was explicitly designed out of spite for me.