But even such a reasonable idea can go too far.
Can you visit the world s quietest room.
My trip to the world s quietest room my girlfriend maia also an audio nerd gave me one of the best birthday presents ever a tour of the world s quietest room.
One of the quietest sounds that can be heard in a quiet room calm breathing clocks in at 10db.
Inside the world s quietest room.
You ll hear your heart beating sometimes you can hear your lungs hear your stomach gurgling loudly.
The quieter the room the more things you hear.
The idea was to create walls floor and ceiling that absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as it does generally.
A normal quiet room has a sound level of about 30 decibels while humans can only hear sounds that are above 0 decibel.
Everybody seems to be looking for a little peace and quiet these days.
When it s quiet ears will adapt.
The guinness book of world records bestowed this title on the anechoic chamber at orfield labs in minneapolis minnesota.
Because inside the world s quietest room noise doesn t bounce off the walls as normal creating an absence of sound that disturbs visitors to the point of hallucination.