[IMR 4350]

With AM and talk radio I can hear the whistle but with the AM static breaking it up it’s not really as annoying.

On some FM stations I don’t hear or just don’t notice because I never turn the music up, what little I listen to music, and on others I can hear it even if I turn the sound way down. If I turn the music up to what most people call normal it becomes annoying. Turn it up loud it’s almost all I can hear and it hurts my ears.

Normal loud noise is loud to me but doesn’t bother me.

Gunfire, hammering on steel, engines running, power tools no real problem.

[Nowhere Man]

With AM and talk radio I can hear the whistle but with the AM static breaking it up it’s not really as annoying.

I hear the whistle too. I think it is mainly caused by the fact that sometimes there are two or more stations on the same frequency. This mostly happens at night. The AM stations have a carrier and sometimes when you get two or more carriers, they mix and create a "beat note" and you have your whistle. One carrier might be maybe 400 cycles off the other as well, for example, and you would hear a 400 cycle whistle. Some radios, usually ghetto blasters, have a "beat switch" on the back to help smooth that out, my SCR-3 from Radio Shack has that. I sometimes hear the whistle on KDKA-AM, Pittsburgh, from another station and WKBN-AM out of Youngstown, OH on 570 kc. I always hear the Cuban station, "Radio Reloj" (Radio Clock) under WKBN and hwen it is real cold, winter night, the Cubans "walk over" WKBN-AM

On some FM stations I don’t hear or just don’t notice because I never turn the music up, what little I listen to music, and on others I can hear it even if I turn the sound way down. If I turn the music up to what most people call normal it becomes annoying. Turn it up loud it’s almost all I can hear and it hurts my ears.

Beyond a certain point, the bass of he subwoofer drives me up the wall and loud bass makes me sick too. It also drives Mom up the wall but she is also battling aggressive breast cancer right now (she is going back on chemo after chemo/surgery, they are trying a new drug they released a few days ago) so the illness has some to do with it too, but she always turned up the treble more.

Normal loud noise is loud to me but doesn’t bother me.

Gunfire, hammering on steel, engines running, power tools no real problem.

Sometimes it does for me. I really heard a loud "Whoomp" last week in the neighborhood. I was helping Mom out and she thought one of the cats knocked something over. I told her, "I think we just heard someone's house go up in a gas explosion" as I recalled the last time I heard such a "Whoomp" in 2004. I was right, someone's house did go up, we live a mile away from it and people as far as 6 or 7 miles felt it too. Everyone in my neighborhood came out in the street wonder what was going on. I had my scanner so I told them what was going on and they were relieved that it wasn't near us to affect us.