I was watching TV last night with my girlfriend and we went to go eat and she turns off the TV, well she thought so at least. I was in the other room eating and I really began to get annoyed at the very high pitch that the CRT TV gives off. So I jump up in the middle of dinner and found she switched off the cable box, but not the TV.

I explained to her that the squeal of the TV drives me crazy. She responds "What squeal? I dont hear anything". So after dinner I sat there turning the TV on and off wondering why she doesnt hear it.

It seems as if about half of people can hear it, the other cant. Do I have crazy bat ears or something?

So I wanted to ask, who here can hear the very high pitch squeal that all CRTs give off?

Maaannn. That's ridiculous.. My girlfreinds mom's tv squeals like crazy. i dont know what it is, but it can eaisly be solved by getting a tv that doesn't squeal. im sure it has to do with your speakers on your tv being on. hahaha Reeeediculous..

I dont know. I've seen a few cheap, older TVs squeal un-godly, however what I'm talking about is the natural squeal that all of them do, even brand new ones. I think it's an sound produced by the fly-back transformer in them. Maybe it's up there in the 20kHz range where most people hearing starts to roll off.

All I know is I can hear it. Sometimes I can hear when my neighbors forget to turn off their TV at night.... Drives me NUTS!

I think you have been gifted/cursed with unhuman bat ears...although i have heard a faint whine on some sets to hear it from a neighbours tv is not normal. In my opinion you should use your talent...with great power comes great responsibility!

Now were talking in a townhouse, with the neighbor's window open, so dont give me that much credit. But if I'm in my room and both mine and their windows is open, yup I can hear it. Kind of funny, even with this "gift" I still can tune out my GF with no problems


And I've been known to be in a loud, crowded bar and hear a cell phone ring from inside a purse under the table.

Yea I can walk in a house and tell if a TV is turned on. Drive my wife and kids nuts.

We'll be downstairs and about to walk out the door and I'll holler at the kids to run upstairs and turn their TV off. They turn off the Game System but leave the TV on with the Blue Screen.

I hate that darn squeal.

I've often been in another person's home and somebody could turn on a TV in another room and I'd know it, just by hearing that whine. I'd say, "Somebody just turned on a TV," and they'd go and check and find out I was right.

I can hear it as well, though the constant ringing in my ears is starting to take over. I could hear it really easy when I was younger. My fried, the same guy who came up with the screen idea I'm going to use, is a human oscilloscope. he can pick up on it from other electronics as well. I thought he was full of BS at first, till I tested him on it.

Life of the party

Horizontal scan rate is around 16kHz, so if you can hear it, you still have good hearing!!

I, like the rest of you apparently, has the same annoying noise coming from the tv...I've read alot of complaining but does anyone actually have a solution???

I hear some stuff (both electronic and otherwise) which others cannot but CRT TV's have never been of particular note to me. I guess that puts me in a kind of between-camps-limbo. I suspect it's partially a result of ones brain hearing filters and actual hearing acuity at work in almost all cases.

Edit: Oh yeah, Bubb Rubb and Lil Sis say "The whistles go woooooooooooooooo".

Man you gus are nocturnal animalsPllol. I can say I have never noticed it before and still cannot hear it.

One of the most passive aggressive tricks I have ever played was with a co-worker who had a Sony Trinitron Monitor.
Remember them? She used to lord it over her co-worker who was working with a MAG.
So I finally got sick of it and mentioned that Sony was "okay, but the two little lines bothered me." She gave me the the dumb look so I pointed it out to her. She never noticed it before. Now she was screwed.
She was screaming for a new monitor for the next year.

Yes. I am EVIL.

But it's the same with the squeal from monitors. Once you have tuned that sound in, it's nearly impossible to ignore it or forget it. Most techs will give you the eye when you try to cue someone into it. Once you have succeeded, the other person can cue it in at any time if it is present, and there is only one way to sum up the act.
"Oh Man. You are a dick."

Yes. I can hear it and I try my best to disuade people from learning to tune it in...
...except for the people who deserve it.



I like to think of it as "Kharma by Capacitor".

Meanie!

Oh wait... I did the same thing to one jerk at my first tech job... Those lines bug me...

And yeah... Last I tested, I can still hear just fine to about 18kHz. (I could still hear 22kHz 5 years ago. I guess age is starting to catch up with my hearing...) I'm pretty sure that I'll know the very day that I lose 16kHz, unless I manage to get rid of the last of my CRTs before then.


Most embarrasing video for a Supra owner EVER.

That's pretty much me.
I can also tell when a TV's been left on but it's video source turned off. For instance, turned off DVD player but not TV.
It won't bother me, but I can tell it's on & feel it needs to be turned off because it's wasting electricity.