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If I close my eyes, open my mouth and tilt my head back I can hear a hum. Is this The Hum?
This might be a case of https://www.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/
Great, now my ears hurt.
There's a Persistent Hum in Windsor, Ontario, and No One Knows Why
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Are you eventually going for an external "headphone" system, a transdermal solution, or actual implants similar to BAHA hearing aids or the DIY transducer implants some of the grinder community have installed, or perhaps even piercings in the tragus? What drivers are you using?
I have no interest or ability to build surgical implants. Purely over you skin. I've read about people with hearing damage loving bone conduction over regular headphones. It's been described as miraculous by some. Obviously hearing loss is complex and that's not for everyone. What is the grinder community? I assume not the gay dating app, I don't think that has a scene for cyberpunk body mod, but I could be wrong. I…
I'm referring to grinder / transhumanist / biohacking communities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grinder_(biohacking)
Personally, I've been a member of https://biohack.me since more or less its inception but I have yet to undergo any surgery. That will change soon, and transducer earphones are second on my list.
Hence my questions, I love to compare notes.
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#293Related? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum
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#294We had a "hum" sound in cambridge MA. Its one of those sounds when you walk through you don't think anything of it, but if you live near it.... (I was one of the lucky as I couldn't hear it from my bedroom). Incredibly hard to track down, it was determined to be Fans on top of a building. And it was fixed. The sound bounces around so much, just walking around I couldn't pinpoint it on a couple nights of trying. Its w…
How did they figure it out?
I think the city inspector had a sound meter and an idea of what changed..
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It's constrained, but it's still unknown. It's not saying there is no clue about the origin, and narrowing it to a few thousand feet/a few possibilities still means the source is unknown.
The location of my son is unknown , since I don't know which side of the room he's on right now.
Different case IMO. There you know both the object and the location to some margin of error. If there was a strange noise in the room, you might know the location to the same degree of precision (i.e. it's somewhere in the room), but until you determine the object making it, the source of the noise is still unknown.
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I was plagued by the Hum for years. At times it became astonishingly loud. But I was able (eventually) to figure it out. Short version: I made many attempts to track it down. Used low frequency Microphones, filters, amplifiers, etc, as well as PC Spectrogram programs to try and and visualise and record it. Visited many nearby industries etc to try and find it. But none of my attempts did any good. As I'm a Radio Engi…
> I slowly came to understand that my Hum was an internally generated sound. Surely you asked other people if they also heard a hum? If they said no, what made you not focus on the ear right from the beginning?
If you read the Hum forums, many couples report that they can both hear the Hum, while others don't.
In my case I'm single, so the question is moot.
But whatever, it is still possible that your partner also is a Hum sufferer.
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#297We can put Hamburg (Germany) on the list of "humming cities" too. When I moved close to the harbour I started hearing a humming sound, espececially at night, almost exclusively indoors. None of my flatmates heard that sound, so I started questioning my perception until I found another person living in the same building hearing that sound. Our bedrooms are located one below the other and the sound is most perceivable…
Is a hum not more or less expected in the vicinity of busy harbors, even more so than in general industrial areas? Harbors attract a lot of possible sources that could cause a hum: maritime equipment, ship engines, generators, industrial equipment, large refrigerators (in containers or in warehouses), ... You may want to read about the Kokomo, IN "hum" investigation which was traced back to an industrial source [1].…
> Is a hum not more or less expected in the vicinity of busy harbors, even more so than in general industrial areas?
You're absolutely right, but there are different types of hums and many of them you can directly be linked to a source. Just to name the two loudest in my direct neighbourhood:
* Some kind of ships at slow speeds make very loud humming sounds. The loudest in my expirience are big car carriers (to be specific: Grimaldi carriers in Hamburg). The sound is very unsettling since it's at such a low frequency, that it's more "feeling" than "hearing". But the good thing is that it's over after the ship passes by.
* Some procedures in the nearby ship repair dock are very unsettling too. Especially sandblasting ship hulls is very annoying and for some reasons they mainly do it at night.
But the most distracting hum of which I was talking about in my parent comment has yet to be linked to a specific source. And it lasts much longer than my other examples, typically for days. So it has to be something which is produced only in specific conditions. This doesn't mean that this is ruling out all of your examples (e.g. large refrigerators could only be in use when the storage capacity is needed, it could be specific vessels etc.).
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It's relatively trivial to find direction of the 30 Hz sound source, given 1 million budget - you just need to place microphones 11 meters apart and raise them above buildings until you get direct line of sight to the main source.
A million bucks wouldn't get a square city block of what you describe.
A square block? 5-10 microphones is plenty. Your goal is to find a direction from the place you deploy, not to blanket the city. Then you can redeploy somewhere else to get another direction, etc.
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I was plagued by the Hum for years. At times it became astonishingly loud. But I was able (eventually) to figure it out. Short version: I made many attempts to track it down. Used low frequency Microphones, filters, amplifiers, etc, as well as PC Spectrogram programs to try and and visualise and record it. Visited many nearby industries etc to try and find it. But none of my attempts did any good. As I'm a Radio Engi…
I can produce noise in my ears on command. It sounds like loud, low-pitched white noise. I'm not sure what exactly im doing, but it feels like im contracting some muscle inside my head near the temples. Is this normal and could this be something similar?
Try clenching your teeth. I can hear a sound when I first clench my teeth and then it dies down.
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Now I am curious: do you really need to state a reason to pass a border? In Europe, when you don't need a visa, you simply cross the border, no questions asked. And if somebody asked me anyway, I'd just say "I want to visit the town. I'm curious."
Welcome to the lovely United States. ;) Since 9-11, border security, especially returning to the US, has gotten extremely paranoid. At all three spots between Michigan and Canada (the Ambassador Bridge, the tunnel, and the crossing in Sarnia), everyone is stopped and questioned by border agents if they don’t have some kind of automatic pass that requires clearance ahead of time. You’re asked a lot of questions, like…
Time to get a Nexus pass. It really is worth it.