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Your new circuit has Q2 turned on fairly hard most of the time. You removed the trimpot to ground at its base (which reduces how hard it is turned on) so its sensitivity depends on the current gain of the transistor that can vary a lot. Some 2N2222 transistors will be sensitive and others will be less sensitive. You added a series trimpot which can adjust the sensitivity only a little and reduced the value of C2 so that it responds only to very high audio frequencies.
I bet there are millions of high frequency sounds that will activate the circuit.
I bet there are millions of high frequency sounds that will activate the circuit.