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> something recorded near old-school CRT monitors may have a 15.75kHz tone, ordinarily outside the threshold of hearing

Only for some people -- the upper limit of human hearing varies between 15-20kHz, depending on the person and their age. For many children and younger adults (myself included), CRT coil whine is well within our audible range, as an incredibly annoying high-pitched squeal.

This comes up in speedrunning communities sometimes -- many runners prefer to play on CRTs due to their fast response time, and streamers who use CRTs need to remember to set up a notch filter on their microphone, or else their stream may be borderline unwatchable for younger viewers and the streamer might not even realize it.



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