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I had a magic skill when I was in high school: I could walk into any computer lab and tell you exactly which monitors were on (when the computer was off). I believe this is around 15K.

it looks my hearing drops off between 13k (noticeably quiet compared to 12k) to 14k (can't hear it at all).



A very old NTSC TV will be 525 scan lines @ 30 frames / second => 15,750 hz.

The source of the sound is the transformer which resets the scan line back to the original side of monitor.


Why is it more noticeable when the computer isn't sending a signal, but the monitor is on?


Hah reminded me of when I was a kid walking into the living room with a few people around many times and turning off the TV (crt of course) that was just showing a black screen. It was so loud and obvious to me. Now all the TVs seem to have bizarre screensavers




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