What is your favorite sound?

[PPQ_Purple]

Seek help.

Serious help.

I would, but none of my local network providers cater to dial up modems any more.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I would, but none of my local network providers cater to dial up modems any more.

LOL...not exactly the kind of help I was suggesting. But at least I got you the sound. You can hook that YouTube up in continuous loop and...well...do whatever people who enjoy that sound do I guess.

This has reminded me that back in the day I had a routine. I actually stood up first, then hit connect and broke for the kitchen to get a snack...coming back after the modem was done doing its thing.

 

[Narz]

Cats purring; cat's purring.

2nded. Listening to them drink water is pretty cute too.

The best sound is music of course.

And a woman you really like saying your name in the thores of passion.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

LOL...not exactly the kind of help I was suggesting. But at least I got you the sound. You can hook that YouTube up in continuous loop and...well...do whatever people who enjoy that sound do I guess.

This has reminded me that back in the day I had a routine. I actually stood up first, then hit connect and broke for the kitchen to get a snack...coming back after the modem was done doing its thing.

Thing is though it's not the sound that's the important part. It's the sound in the context of connecting to the internet. It's kind of like the smell of good food isn't really any good unless it's coming off a plate of the stuff sitting in front of you.

For lack of a better word it's not the sound it self but the experience it represents. And that experience is gone along with the good old days of slow expensive internet.

 

[Truthy]

Speaking of horrifying internet noises, has anyone ever tried the audio feature on captchas?

 

[Lohrenswald]

my favourite sound is the one from knocking on books
best when it's thick and hardback

 

[civvver]

I like silence. Cus we never get it. So much noise pollution in the world, plus I have kids. So it's never quiet. Although of course waves and crickets are nice too.

My 3 year old's true belly laugh is awesome partly cus it doesn't happen that much. It can't be coerced with a regular tickle, it has to occur naturally when she sees something really funny.

I like the fizzy pffft beer makes when you pop the bottle cap off with an opener.

I hate humming noises like a refrigerator condenser, a bad fan, or low whistling sounds. We had this one return air vent that hit some weird harmonic note that sounded like a buzzing in the back of my head and I searched the whole house trying to find it, finally isolated it to this one vent in the basement. So I put duct tape around the edges so it wouldn't vibrate and the noise stopped.

Smoke alarms low on batteries and chipping is bad. Any kind of fire alarm sucks. As does the amber alert stuff, it's so jarring and they always go out at night.

 

[Farm Boy]

Silence. You rebel you.

Trying to remember the last time I had an impromptu stretch. If the wind died on a summer night growing up I used to be able to get 5 to 10 minute stretches at a time only interrupted by the occasional night animal. Could hear cars on a low speed road well over a mile away if they happened to pass. Could see them too, for that matter. Light pollution has increased at least as much as the noise.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I've come to grow quite fond of the ringing caused by the tinnitus in my ears.

Every time I notice mine I count my blessings that my brain successfully filters it out 99.999% of the time. It literally makes some people go insane to the point where doctors will severe their auditory nerves to keep them from killing themselves.

@civvver - You know I don't know if I really like true silence. I've been anechoic rooms and on top of the weird way everything sounds, it's just spooky. I do like the 'silence' of the wind gently bristling the leaves and similar 'silences' though.

Least favorite sound: Foxes at night - they sound like children being murdered.
We heard some at my in-laws out in the woods and started steeling ourselves to go out in the woods and confront the serial killer surely to be found there before we realized it was an animal noise and not in fact kids catching the knife.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yeah, it's just background noise to me at this point. What worries me though is there are certain sounds I can't hear at all anymore because of it.

Same here dude. I've been noticing that I'm not hearing what people say a lot. I also read about some specific type of hearing damage where you can still here things, but your brain can no longer make out specific sounds once the background noise hits a certain level. I've never gotten tested for it but I suspect I have it due to me experiencing exactly that all the time.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Oh it's suuuuuuper annoying because someone will be talking to me a voice that is clearly loud enough - I hear them just fine - but piss all if I can actually understand them. My wife gets annoyed with it and I've learned to just nod my head in some situations where I've already asked the other person to repeat themselves 4 or 5 times.

For the longest time no one knew that my Grandpa came back from Vietnam basically deaf because he read lips so effortlessly. I do not have that skill.

Edit: For clarification, my own hearing loss is because I was a stupid teen with headphones and a massive chip on my shoulder and not a war wound.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

That's exactly what I've been experiencing. I joke about it though by saying it's such a common condition among soldiers and veterans (which it is) that that's why we talk so loud and shout all the time. (which it is)

You missed that second one, but I got your back. Now, where's the joke?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

3M manufactured defective earplugs for soldiers that contributed to this. I believe other manufacturers did as well - I know one problem was with an active earplug that was supposed to only kick in to cut off the volume of gunshots and the like but it didn't really work out either. I believe the 3M ones though were inactive (unpowered) earplugs that happened to suck.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

TARDIS noises

 

[Timsup2nothin]

I used the 3M earplugs and they were trash. Always came back from the range with my ears ringing like I wasn't wearing any hearing protection at all. I never wore earplugs on deployment though. Didn't like how muffled they made everything sound and that made me feel like my situational awareness wasn't where it needed to be to avoid my family receiving a folded flag.

I spent a lot of time with my mickey mouse ears clamped above my temples instead of over my ears for very similar reasons. I might miss hearing something now because of the hearing loss, but missing something then because of the hearing protection could have meant missing everything now.

 

[Zardnaar]

I don't even like earphones walking down the street. And no one's shooting at me.

I like the sound of rain on the roof/windows.

 

[Hygro]

The synth noise that sounds like a laser didgeridoo, giant whomping deep kick drums

I like voices a lot, wind, waves, morning birds when there’s a bunch of them, things echoing across smoothly rolling, vegetated hills, a particular Nicaraguan accent that isn’t universal there. I like unrehearsed sounds that hit the moment just right. I like a lot of sound effects from video games and some from movies. I like certain chords, I even prefer certain frequencies. I love sine tone basses, and more so if they have a tiny bit of distortion.

I love the sound of things reflecting off corrugated metal, especially really loud simple wave forms like aforementioned siney kick drums reflecting off corrugated walls. I love when a washing machine sounds rhythmic and harmonic and musical.

I love crowd cheers and the din of conversation above loud music.

Baby laughs and laughs in general...

Silence...

The gas igniting and the heaters turning on in the stillness of the night before the sunrise.

My own name...

 

[civvver]

@civvver - You know I don't know if I really like true silence. I've been anechoic rooms and on top of the weird way everything sounds, it's just spooky. I do like the 'silence' of the wind gently bristling the leaves and similar 'silences' though.

Maybe not on that level, but like when I'm all alone on the couch at night and it's quiet. Or in my room with no fans on. Not that I mind a white noise fan at night but sometimes I like to take in the silence.

 

[Socrates99]

Crackling campfire, that pop and hiss when you open a bottle or can, waves, the call of a loon or mourning dove, a small stream or river.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Modern hearing aid technology is improving quickly and does wonders. Costco does free testing (takes about an hour) and you get a nice report of where your losses are. I use my hearing aids when I go out to restaurants and meetings, etc. and can control them through an app on my phone.