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So here's my problem. I hear this noise (try saying "dit dididit dididit dididit", but like a robot) every once in a while when there's electronics around me. Not the same device every time, but anything with speakers and/or headphones. At first, it was my phone, then my answering machine, then my iPod headphones, then my wireless awesome headphones I wear all the time. Oh, and in two different states, too. It follows me wherever I go. I think my tech is finally beginning to become sentient... In fact, it just happened as I wrote this.
Anyone know why this is happening or experience the same thing?


Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:54 am
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I had this problem before, and something similar. The something else was when I had my head-phones on playing halo (pc). All of a sudden, this really loud buzzing noise was on my head-phones and I nearly threw my laptop across the room. It just stop after a while. A looooong while


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Did you try asking your electronics why they're yelling at you?


Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:09 am
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Apparently your self-destruct sequence has been activated.


Sat Aug 16, 2008 2:22 am
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Duh102 wrote:
So here's my problem. I hear this noise (try saying "dit dididit dididit dididit", but like a robot) every once in a while when there's electronics around me. Not the same device every time, but anything with speakers and/or headphones. At first, it was my phone, then my answering machine, then my iPod headphones, then my wireless awesome headphones I wear all the time. Oh, and in two different states, too. It follows me wherever I go. I think my tech is finally beginning to become sentient... In fact, it just happened as I wrote this.
Anyone know why this is happening or experience the same thing?
If you can get a recording of it, that'd help. We can't reproduce a sound through text, no matter how well you explain it.
It could be electromagnetic interference of some kind (think of when you're listening to AM radio and you go underneath a power cable), simply wear on the wiring, or even your hearing.
Headphones especially, the wires get worn out and start cutting the sound apart (not in a literal sense.. I'm sure you've all heard what I'm talking about) Speakers it certainly isn't quite as often, but the wires inside the actual speaker get worn and produce the same effect. Wireless headphones are worst.
They can pick up on any kind of interference on their channel, no matter how minute. And, even though they say wireless, there are, obviously, wires on the inside, which can also get worn.
tl;dr: Wear and tear, your hearing, electromagnetic interference. We just don't know for sure.


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Oh you think that's annoying do you.
I have this problem with the high-pitched background noise in my head- listen to silence and you'll hear it; older TV's turning on also make it a lot. Sometimes, it gets REALLY ♥♥♥♥ LOUD and no one else can hear it and it drives me crazy, but then what's worse is it's a vicious cycle- the crazier it drives me, the more I am a ♥♥♥♥ insane lunatic who hears fake sounds.
No srsly I don't know about the ditdit thing but the high-pitched whine is common and annoying.


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Ever hear of the mosquito ringtone? I came very close to smashing a girl's phone because of it.

@Jaybud:
Seeing as it happens at random, no I don't think I can get a recording, but I know it's not wear and tear. I got the iPod headphones not 2 days before it started happening, and it's the EXACT same noise, louder or softer depending on what else is playing. I know it's not just me, a friend heard it from my answering machine once. I get interference on my wireless headphones occasionally, but that sounds more like a radio between channels or the next-door neighbor's phone calls (apparently it's on a similar wavelength).
I guess I'm just stuck with it.

Control wrote:
Apparently your self-destruct sequence has been activated.

Aw bugger, not again... Now where is that primer key...?

Lord Tim wrote:
Did you try asking your electronics why they're yelling at you?

I tell them they won't take me alive. I'm not sure they listen.


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I can walk into a house with a television on a black channel and muted and hear it running. Same goes for my sound system, just from being on. Monitor does the same(Has speakers). Same sound comes from my mp3 player when turned on without anything playing. I think I can hear this sound from any electronic device with speakers. My relatives always leave the TV on with the cable box off or something and I'll be the one to shut it off because I notice that sound. I never shut the wrong thing off(partly because I'm not technologically illiterate).

I think it just has to do with sensitivity of hearing. I've asked my relatives before, and none of them hear the tv being on, etc. Sound is constant for me, not random. It's like a far more high pitch 16khz sine wave(that you referred to as a mosquito ringer).

I don't mind it though. It's just odd.

Your sound sounds more like poor wiring to audio outputting devices.


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The thing is that I sometimes barely think this is hearing, it's so high pitched. It's like the opposite of feeling an extremely low frequency in my gut.


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Oh yes, the high-pitched whine is quite common with me as well, even with my old ears...
It's really frustrating at times.


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OH NO ALIEN IMPLANTS IN YOUR BRAIN

Maybe you have tinnitus or some other ear-related malady.


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That sound in speakers is caused by a cellphone signal interfering with the speakers.



And depending on what you have on your phone i'd imagine it doesn't take anything except have it on for it to cause that.


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I also think some sort oh phone signal... happens pretty much by any speaker.

But like said your certain it isnt so i'm guessing your pc could be transmitting the noise? (wireless internet perhaps? I seriously dought it though)


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It's probably mild paranoia. Have you ever read King's Ballad of the Rubber Bullet? Main character is schizophrenic and paranoid. He has a fairy in his typewriter and can hear and feel electricity, thinks it's hurts him. I'd probably see a psychiatrist.


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YoshiX wrote:
I also think some sort oh phone signal... happens pretty much by any speaker.

But like said your certain it isnt so i'm guessing your pc could be transmitting the noise? (wireless internet perhaps? I seriously dought it though)



It can only be a cellphone or maybe a pda.


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