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I have tinnitus and it sounds just like power supplies, except it comes from nowhere. So, when I hear the squeal, I turn my head. If the squeal noise follows the movement of my head, tinnitus. If it stays put, power supply!
It's like skunk and pot! (I'm in Canada, it's legal and everywhere.) If I smell it, I look around. If I see a burrow, skunk! If I see a dozy looking dude with red eyes...
It's funny that you mentioned pot. Because people described the reaction of pot sometimes in the way of OPs question: When you smoke weed, you get sensitive for things your brain normally is able to filter out as irrelevant information because your head can only process so much before it gets overwhelmed. Some people described that when they smoke weed, that they can sit in their living room or kitchen and start noticing the humming of the fridge or the buzzing of an electrical object as your synapses are wired "differently" when blocked by THC and you start to notice things, your brain normally suppresses.
Sorry for your tinnitus bro. I hope you find ways to make it bearable at times.
It's funny, I had a horrible toxic job for way longer than any sane person should ever have to deal with, and one aspect of it was dangerous noise levels. We complained, and the company always sent "independent" inspectors who always found that the noise levels were juuuust inside the legal safe limit. Even when they added enough equipment to double the volume! Funny that... Anyways, I am now over six months gone from that job, and I just realized that my tinnitus is way better than it was! Ditto my mental health... Now I just need a winning lottery ticket or a not-soul-sucking job...
It's especially common among people with Autism/ASD and ADHD to hear noises other people often don't hear. Like those LED light bars, or coffee pot crackling, or electricity from appliances. For ADHD I've seen a few people claim that those sounds are just as audible for everyone else, but everybody just subconsciously filters it out and doesn't notice it, while people with ADHD are easily caught by it. I assume for ASD it would be somewhat similar β plus Autistic people are a lot more susceptible to sensory issues, although people with ADHD also often have fucked up senses, which can make noises like that a LOT more noticeable (and even problematic/headache-inducing/stressful/painful).
Coil whine ? Yup. They told me it would go away as I got older and lost range of hearing. Still waiting for that.
Edit: typo
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My father used to make fun of me for saying that I could hear the TV on even if it was muted, or that I could hear the furnace 'scream' before it came on.
One year, I got as a gift for Christmas, a handheld recorder and a fancy microphone from my stepfather a university music professor And that recorder could actually record the sound which he was able to show me on the computer.
That was like 25 years ago, I've been working with computers ever since, and now I am familiar with many many many devices that make high pitch whines.
The TV thing, from what I've gathered, is normal in kids and lasts up until your 30s or somewhere around there. After that your ears just can't pick up that pitch anymore.
CRT TV's stopped being common at the same time I was aging into the range that would be unable to hear their distinctive whine.
I did as a kid, but my tinnitus covers it up now.
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I have tinnitus AND can hear my lightbulbs buzzing. Follow me for more tips!
Itβs probably the type thatβs brain side like mine. Itβs not an ear thing but your brain has some reason for thinking you hear the ringing. But even so, I can still hear the slightest sounds. Itβs bizarre because the ringing will be louder but I hear things that are quieter. Itβs like having two sets of ears at once in those moments and is always unsettling.
Yes. I can hear to about 18kHz, so cheap USB chargers are no longer allowed in my house....
Worse, the EV chargers I used to work with had PEMs switching at 10kHz for the US UL variants. EVERYONE could hear those!!
Test your hearing range with this if you want...
https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/
I used the 10kHz tone to annoy the eng dept in the office till they changed the PEM switching freq to 20kHz....
Not anymore.Age.
When I was a kid I hated going to the city art museum because all the humidity and temperature control devices emitted this awful high frequency noise that made me nauseated.
I can't hear the "mosquito" pitch noise emitters used to deter teenage loitering in some cities anymore. I kept that longer than I thought I would.
Yes. They drive me nuts. My family had a PC that would buzz whenever you moved the mouse. We have a bunch of cheap LED lamps in my apartment and every one has an especially loud transformer.
Yes, often. It doesn't really bother me that much, plus tinnitus generally overwhelms those sounds.
Yes and it drives me bonkers. I've had to leave rooms because the noise was just too loud
I play electric guitar a foot from my computer. I hear all kind of noises through my amplifier. Scolling with my wired mouse makes a noise through it. I also know my phone is goimg to ring before it does because the cell,signal makes a noise through mu computer speakers.
Used to, until the tinnitus kicked in.
Despite me having tinnitus, I hear those sounds very clearly in quiet environments. They annoy the crap out of me...
Yes, and CRTs as well.
Yes. On a side note: do not buy hp printers they are really bad for their power supplies.
I can hear coil whine from my PC's graphics card, but that's it.
Edit: Also our home stereo system (not the speakers) when it's turned on.
I used the have a PC that ran Windows XP, and when I moved the mouse, sound was heard from the speakers. It probably had a cheap sound controller on the motherboard.
My PC fucked with me with the coil whines.
Playing Metro Exodus with raytracing and shit? No noise.
Playing Grid 2, released over a decade ago? "Let me play you the song of my people"
Yes some of my smart bulbs make that sound when theyβre off or on low power. Iβm 38. I do have a mild tinnitus as well but itβs on a different frequency so I hear the difference.
please don't make me aware of more sounds I wasn't aware of before, I have enough of them already
Yep. I was told Iβd stop hearing it as I got older but I turn 40 next month and I still hear it.
45 checking in. I hate them
I just remembered that the Dell docking station Iβm using makes a sound when it processes data. I can literally hear my mouse move.
Donβt buy Dell.
Two of the best investments I've ever made were good quality PC fans and SSDs instead of HDDs. Now, the loudest noises I hear come from my tinnitus.
I don't think I own anything that makes noise like that anymore, but we used to have a big TV a few years ago that I could tell was on or off from the other side of the wall.
E: I just remembered that my speakers sometimes make noise if I listen at a certain angle and last week I heard someone's iPhone charger make a ringing noise while sitting on the socket so I disconnected it.
Got the fans in my pc turned up higher than needed just so i dont heat the coil whine.
I used to hear tv tubes, power supplies and all sorts of high frequency noise. These days I mostly just hear tinnitus. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I tend to flip off powerstrips at night because of that exact sounds. And also because I think my devices could be listening.
My air fryer has a blinking light whet it's on standby. Well, when the light's OFF, I can hear a high pitched noise. My partner is 4 years older than me and she can't hear it α(ΰ² _ΰ² α)
The transformer of my electric shaver makes a similar noise too.
I used to hear all these sounds, but I'm 40 now so I don't hear them anymore.
I'm 56, wear earplugs at night, and still hear an intermittent electrical noise. It's not a high-pitched whine, more like a low hum. I live in an apartment complex so it's likely the wiring. I have hyperacusis.
I can't hear it but I can often tell when it clicks over because it causes a spike in my tinnitus.
We have a VR system set up in our living room. I don't even want to talk about how long it took me to figure out the receivers were making a steady, high pitched noise. There are 4 of them and they are situated near the ceiling.
I hear it from a lot of things when it's quiet enough. Clock radios, tvs, monitors, my pugmill, heaters. There was a noisy power strip with a flashing one-off switch that I'm still convinced was going to kill someone.
I DON'T know anything about electricity - so mostly it makes me anxious that my house is going to burn down. I have bad enough hearing loss that I have to use closed captions on my TV - but it IS mostly because deep voices are extremely muddled. I'm surprised a bit by how many "not really" answers I see.
Use a spectroscopic app on your phone
It'll help you identify the source of high pitch sounds
I once noticed an external HDD was making a high pitch noise intermittently, as the LED turned on and off. It was bizarre
Edit: spalling
It is never quiet enough in my house to hear myself think without difficulty, so it definitely never gets quiet enough for that.
My monitor has a power led that blinks when in stand by (and not receiving a signal.
And the coil whine between the onn/off-switching is audible.