Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version VT1.00C 11/1/84; site vortex.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!vortex!lauren From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: monitor whine Message-ID: <703@vortex.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 12:59:20 EDT Article-I.D.: vortex.703 Posted: Sat Jul 6 12:59:20 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jul-85 00:40:48 EDT References: <119@ecrcvax.UUCP> Organization: Vortex Technology, Los Angeles Lines: 20 Actually, here in the U.S. the flyback is even more likely to be heard since it's about 3 Khz lower. I've heard stories of people quieting down noisy flybacks by coating them with caulking--but I have no idea if this works or if it might have undesirable safety or other side-effects. As monitors age previously quiet units sometimes start the whine. They drive me crazy, too. I also hear ultrasonic motion detectors (the sound sources for which are often left on all day while only the alarm is switched on and off) and some dog whistles (you don't really "hear" the latter, but you "feel" it in a very uncomfortable fashion. Makes me wonder what it sounds like to a creature more attuned to that frequency range.) One cure, as noted earlier, is lots of very loud rock music over a period of time, or lots of plane flights, ideally near the engines when possible. Simple human aging also, supposedly, reduces high-frequency response just in the normal course of things. --Lauren--