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i know that closed door make noises sound a bit muffled and opened door allow more louder noises... but im wondering... partly open door does that change the volume of noises?

I notice sometime hearing like to turn up volume on one channel on tv but turn down other channel.. why? If hearing people can hear tv on a bit lower volume so why bother turning it up?

Suppose you have a mustang car exactly same as other person's car (same engine, same model, same year etc). and both of u turn ur back on car and have someone turn on engine on one of those car... can u tell which car is yours or other person? or do they sound same?

Do big airplane sound different than small airplane? (see i understand small airplane is quieter than big airplane but... waht i m curious abt is.. suppose big airplane is far away and small airplane is a bit closer can u tell which one is bigger by just hearing it?)

And one more question... how loud is a gunshot? one time a while ago a person told me that person heard gunshot and pointed abt 6 blocks away. I was like holy cow! its that LOUD?!? if it was that loud how can hearing people stand it? especially cops if they use it?

and how far can hearing people hear the sound? With cochlear implant i can only hear the room sounds and sometime hallway sounds. any farther than that and i wont hear it.
 
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I'll have fun responding to this...

After reading all the "what's it like" questions from hearies to deafies, now I get a "what's it like" question from a deafie to a hearie."

SpiceHD said:
i know that closed door make noises sound a bit muffled and opened door allow more louder noises... but im wondering... partly open door does that change the volume of noises?
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The answer is yes. Partly closing the door will effect the amount of volume coming from within the room. Much like if you cup your hand over a flash light. The more of the light you cover up, the less light you can see.

I notice sometime hearing like to turn up volume on one channel on tv but turn down other channel.. why? If hearing people can hear tv on a bit lower volume so why bother turning it up?
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Some TV stations broadcoast their channels at different gains, meaning the volume may not be broadcasted the same from one station to another, so a person would have to turn up the volume to compensate for the loss in volume.

Suppose you have a mustang car exactly same as other person's car (same engine, same model, same year etc). and both of u turn ur back on car and have someone turn on engine on one of those car... can u tell which car is yours or other person? or do they sound same?
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It depends. All cars have different engine sounds from different makes and models to different engine types. To the common, untrained ear, it will be hard to tell. Perhaps so if someone is familiar enough with their engine sound. Then on the other hand, you have some car experts who are so into what they do, that they can name the make of car from hearing just the engine sound.

Do big airplane sound different than small airplane? (see i understand small airplane is quieter than big airplane but... waht i m curious abt is.. suppose big airplane is far away and small airplane is a bit closer can u tell which one is bigger by just hearing it?)
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Bigger plane typically means louder noise. I work on an airport property, but don't see many small planes. Just know that big planes aren't fun to be close to.

And one more question... how loud is a gunshot? one time a while ago a person told me that person heard gunshot and pointed abt 6 blocks away. I was like holy cow! its that LOUD?!? if it was that loud how can hearing people stand it? especially cops if they use it?
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They're pretty loud, but there are alot of things that will effect the sound, such as the area where the gunshot occured: the acoustics of the area, if its inside or outside, etc. Its quite hard to explain if you don't have a basic understanding of soundwaves and acoustics.

and how far can hearing people hear the sound? With cochlear implant i can only hear the room sounds and sometime hallway sounds. any farther than that and i wont hear it.
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Again, it depends on where it occurs, the acoustics of the area, inside, outside, and the sound in question. I'll put this in terms I can easily explain. Guitar (which has shorter soundwaves) can be heard much louder at a short distance, from a bass guitar (which has long soundwaves). The bass can be heard from a longer distance than the guitar.
 
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Gunshot ?
Very much depends what type of firearm.
Generally, rifles are quieter than handguns (when comparing the same cartridge). (The longer the barrel, the more that the gases have expanded before they begin escaping after the projectile has left the barrel.)

A .22 caliber rifle is loud enough to be hear in the country for maybe a mile. In the city, probably would not notice the sound of one 1/8 mile away.
Inside at the target range, we do not need hearing protection for just a couple shots with a .22 rifle, but it is still recommended and most target ranges require protection.

With .380 pistol, even outside, fire just one round without ear protection and it will drastically reduce my ability to hear for an hour or so.

O N E time, I fired my .357 6 inch barrel outdoors without hearing protection. And I will never try that again. My ears were ringing for 1/2 an hour and I did not hear normally the rest of the day. The noise from that thing is very painful. I have never fired my .44 magnum without hearing protection and never will try that. Standing 3 feet from someone firing a .44 magnum, you WILL feel it in your chest, you will feel your hair move. I think you could hear one of these 1/4 mile in the city on a quiet day.

Have you ever stood near the back end of a harley that had the mufflers removed (like so many harley-heads like to do) ? Some of those bikes are about as loud as a .380 or smaller. So when you feel your chest moving from the noise from one of those bikes, it is probably about the same, except the bike is making that noise 20 to 30 times per second.

Keep this in mind when you watch movies and tv. Hollywood directors have obviously never operated a firearm. Because in the cop shows, they have a 'shootout' and the cops are talking to each other. In reality they would have to shout at each other after discharging a firearm inside a building without hearing protection.

Modern cars, due to federal regulation, are very quiet. Out in the country, the thing we hear farthest away is the car tires on the highway. Mufflers are so good these days that the radiator fan is louder than the sound out of the exhaust pipe, when the car is sitting still. And unmodified cars, well, all cars of the same make and model, like 2006 Mustang, with the same engine will sound exactly the same, until they get old and parts start rattling or squeaking.

Airplanes;
Propeller airplanes sound a LOT different than turbine (jet). Some of the new jet airplanes are pretty 'quiet' (compared to 20 years ago).

I have a John Deer lawn mower. It is the quietest lawn mower I ever been near (other than an electric mower which did not work very well). But the mower is still loud enough that I will not notice the sound of airplanes flying overheard. For most lawnmowers, the blade(s) make more noise than the engine exhaust. A great example of this is airboats. You can hear them 2 miles away out in the everglades. They do not even bother to put mufflers on them because the propeller makes so much noise that you cannot tell the difference by putting mufflers on the engine.

I think I type too much.
 
hulsw said:
I think I type too much.
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:cool: No, thanks for explaining! I know CIs can't duplicate hearing perfectly, so it's nice to have a sense of what it's like to hear. It seems that hearing people just have their ears "turned on" 24/7, which isn't something I'm familiar with...
 
I don't think most deaf who use devices to help them hear realize just how accustomed we are to all the various sounds. I've spoken several times with friends who said all the different sounds they can hear when they have they're CI or aids in makes them go insane. We're just used to all the background noises. In fact, I don't think I have ever experienced complete silence.
 
guido said:
I don't think most deaf who use devices to help them hear realize just how accustomed we are to all the various sounds. I've spoken several times with friends who said all the different sounds they can hear when they have they're CI or aids in makes them go insane. We're just used to all the background noises. In fact, I don't think I have ever experienced complete silence.
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Wow. And to think that's how I wake up every morning--to total silence.

Picking up on various background noises can be very tiring for me, between trying to decipher them and to adjust to them--and I've had a CI for almost ten years!
 
SpiceHD said:
i know that closed door make noises sound a bit muffled and opened door allow more louder noises... but im wondering... partly open door does that change the volume of noises?

I notice sometime hearing like to turn up volume on one channel on tv but turn down other channel.. why? If hearing people can hear tv on a bit lower volume so why bother turning it up?

Suppose you have a mustang car exactly same as other person's car (same engine, same model, same year etc). and both of u turn ur back on car and have someone turn on engine on one of those car... can u tell which car is yours or other person? or do they sound same?

Do big airplane sound different than small airplane? (see i understand small airplane is quieter than big airplane but... waht i m curious abt is.. suppose big airplane is far away and small airplane is a bit closer can u tell which one is bigger by just hearing it?)

And one more question... how loud is a gunshot? one time a while ago a person told me that person heard gunshot and pointed abt 6 blocks away. I was like holy cow! its that LOUD?!? if it was that loud how can hearing people stand it? especially cops if they use it?

and how far can hearing people hear the sound? With cochlear implant i can only hear the room sounds and sometime hallway sounds. any farther than that and i wont hear it.
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As one having a CI for about 1 1/2 years with HAs before for eons since I was young, I will chime in my two cents on this...

Those who were hearing and answered your questions were of course absolutely correct. I can hear most of what they spoke of and even identify things based on their noises like car or truck engines and their distinctions.

With my CI, I can hear quite far with it and it can be interesting what I can pickup that I never heard with my HA. I can sit in my office and hearing and understand conversations around the corners and further away. To me, it is almost like what the hearing do. However, I know there are limitations with my CI. One example is that they hear the thunder before I do. Meaning when there is an approaching storm, they can hear it very far away and my CI is not quite able to pick that up. Another problematical issue is when there is a noisy environment. It is sure hard to pick up conversations in the middle of that type of thing whereas the hearing have a much easier time. It is funny that the stuff I can't quite pick up due to distance or distortions is a minor issue compared to what I can pick up.

I will say the best part is that a CI has cut offs on how much sound to process for safety reasons. This is really nice when you have very sudden and unexpected very loud noises that can bother the hearing but not me...:D
 
total silence is deafening

Total silence is VERY un-nerving. This happens in two places for me. One was in a house I grew up in built in the 1850's. On a hot still summer day when no one else was home and there were no appliances on, the only sound was my own breathing and hearbeat. After an hour or so it was tough.

The other place is in "sound proof booths". Not sound proof actually, but very small studios in a radio station. About a 4 x 4 foot room with sound absorbing materials on the walls, ceiling and floor. This was to stop reverberation. So in this case, I could not even hear my heartbeat. If I held my breath, I could hear the blood moving through my head. Try to sit in that studio for 20 minutes withou talking to yourself. It gives me the creepy-crawlies. I helped build two radio stations and when you are in that little room wiring up microphones and lights, I might have been in there for an hour at a time. arrrrrgh.

A normal schedule we would go in the booth about 1 minute befor air-time. I learned to keep my keys in my pocket and keep jingling them until the "on-air" light came on, about 5 seconds before I started reading the news.

And here is a note for city dwellers and non-hearing. On a STILL day in the summer, we CAN listen to corn grow. That's a weird thing the first time you hear it.

Stop laughing. It is true. Ask anyone that grew up in the cornfields.
Most big-city folks cannot hear it, because they are too busy jabbering away about nothing because they cannot stand a quiet afternoon.

I have watched paint dry also. Only did it twice just to find out it is not a joke, you really can see it dry.
 
fyborg said:
Hearing 24/7 all of the sudden would be scary for me.
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ditto. especially at night time i would perfer total silence. i dont think i can sleep with ci on cuz it would wake me up every time i hear a noise from outside or from cats or whatever. i perfer to wear it when im awake and doing something. strange thing though... i cant stand hearing the "quietness" with my CI but i can stand silent without CI. i think its cuz of quietness that i can hear those buzzing sounds inside my head and its really annoying .
 
SpiceHD said:
ditto. especially at night time i would perfer total silence. i dont think i can sleep with ci on cuz it would wake me up every time i hear a noise from outside or from cats or whatever. i perfer to wear it when im awake and doing something. strange thing though... i cant stand hearing the "quietness" with my CI but i can stand silent without CI. i think its cuz of quietness that i can hear those buzzing sounds inside my head and its really annoying .
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Yeah, kind of like static, but not quite, right? I'm not a fan of that, although it beats being stuck in classrooms full of rather...loud students for eight hours.
 
hulsw said:
Total silence is VERY un-nerving. This happens in two places for me. One was in a house I grew up in built in the 1850's. On a hot still summer day when no one else was home and there were no appliances on, the only sound was my own breathing and hearbeat. After an hour or so it was tough.

The other place is in "sound proof booths". Not sound proof actually, but very small studios in a radio station. About a 4 x 4 foot room with sound absorbing materials on the walls, ceiling and floor. This was to stop reverberation. So in this case, I could not even hear my heartbeat. If I held my breath, I could hear the blood moving through my head. Try to sit in that studio for 20 minutes withou talking to yourself.
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An anechoic (literally: "no echo") chamber is like that. The really expensive ones, from what my friends who've been in one tell me, make you feel like you're going to fall over - vertigo.
 
ismi said:
An anechoic (literally: "no echo") chamber is like that. The really expensive ones, from what my friends who've been in one tell me, make you feel like you're going to fall over - vertigo.
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Sounds like a movie Hitchcock would have made.:ugh3:
 
Im HoH with HA and readiing this thread make me realize how much I dont hear. I dont mind missing out all that noise except when I wanna eavesdrop on my co-workers gossip at the water cooler. :lol:
 
sillycat said:
Im HoH with HA and readiing this thread make me realize how much I dont hear. I dont mind missing out all that noise except when I wanna eavesdrop on my co-workers gossip at the water cooler. :lol:
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:giggle: I lip-read when I want to "listen in".
 
I agree with the others answers to your specific questions. I would ad that I live next to a busy highway and to tone down the noise at night I use a fan. I hear the fan and block out the semis. I spent the night at a friend's house who is HOH and he had all the windows open all night in an apartment complex. He slept like a baby with his aides out and I had trouble sleeping with the outside noises and people coming and going. I can also tell from across the house which one of my toddlers is crying. The only time background noise bothers me is when I have a migraine.
 
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