Can You Visit The World S Quietest Room

One of the quietest sounds that can be heard in a quiet room calm breathing clocks in at 10db.

Can you visit the world s quietest room.

Members of the public visit from around the world almost. You ll hear your heart beating sometimes you can hear your lungs hear your stomach gurgling loudly. 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. The quieter the room the more things you hear.

A normal quiet room has a sound level of about 30 decibels while humans can only hear sounds that are above 0 decibel. The world s quietest room is located in orfield labs in minneapolis and it is an anechoic chamber. The quietest place on earth an anechoic chamber at orfield laboratories in. The idea was to create walls floor and ceiling that absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as it does generally.

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. The guinness book of world records bestowed this title on the anechoic chamber at orfield labs in minneapolis minnesota. Everybody seems to be looking for a little peace and quiet these days.