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by LorenPechtel 744 days ago
Most of us don't.

The signal is at a frequency of one cycle per line-second, but there's an idle period while the beam goes back up to the top where it still cycles so the actual frequency will be a bit higher than a simple lines/frame * frames/sec calculation would indicate. Even for broadcast TV that was beyond what a lot of adults can hear (but a lot of kids can, as plenty of posters in this thread have said.) I want to say 15.7khz but I certainly won't swear to that. As your resolution goes up the frequency will go up so some people would be able to hear what resolution a monitor is set to.