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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 4:51:25 PM  
I could book that for a night and sleep
 
Private_Citizen [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 5:22:33 PM  
I've been in multiple anechoic chambers, and I rather like them. But I've seen other people freak out pretty quick. The silence feels.... Physical. And the lack of echo definitely takes getting used to.
 
fragMasterFlash [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 5:56:08 PM  
Is it quiet enough to hear an SBD fart?
 
RogermcAllen [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:01:20 PM  
Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
 
Sporkabob [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:01:56 PM  
Meh... I'd probably be fine in there. The constant tinnitus means that I can never be in true silence.
 
EJ25T
2023-02-03 7:02:26 PM  
Pfft... my tinnitus is so bad, I'll have a steady 30dB of 10k hertz to keep me company.
 
EJ25T
2023-02-03 7:03:03 PM  

RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...


*fist shaking intensifies*
 
mistahtom
2023-02-03 7:04:04 PM  
Cool booth.  Stupid source.
 
C18H27NO3
2023-02-03 7:04:16 PM  
After a few minutes, you'll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.

Has anyone researched what sex is like in an anechoic chamber?
/I have an idea what those sounds would be but I'm having difficulty putting them down as written words.
 
Red Shirt Blues
2023-02-03 7:04:39 PM  

EJ25T: RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

*fist shaking intensifies*


*fist shaking double intensifies*
 
Super Chronic
2023-02-03 7:06:26 PM  

RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...


Is he a former college football player?

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LordOfThePings [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:06:54 PM  
McCoy can do it with this little gizmo. Yet they still KEPT TALKING!

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phishrace
2023-02-03 7:07:09 PM  
They could easily fix that.

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olorin604
2023-02-03 7:07:50 PM  
Seems complicated 
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capt.snicklefritz [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:08:49 PM  

C18H27NO3: After a few minutes, you'll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.

Has anyone researched what sex is like in an anechoic chamber?
/I have an idea what those sounds would be but I'm having difficulty putting them down as written words.


Likely akin to the sound of two raw porkchops being slapped against one another.
 
Mock26
2023-02-03 7:09:00 PM  
Debunked.
 
Thingster
2023-02-03 7:09:28 PM  
There's a big one I'm in from time to time, and it's pretty cool.

The first thing I noticed was walking up to it you could hear your footsteps plus the echo in the hall, but as soon as your lead foot crossed the threshold and touched down it was just "thud".

Close the door behind you and it's eerie - I could see how certain people wouldn't be able to handle it, especially awkward talkers that always have to fill any silence with chatter.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-02-03 7:09:53 PM  
They could have charged so much money to let people experience this during the 2010 world cup.
 
TWX
2023-02-03 7:11:04 PM  
Tinnitus sufferer here too.  And I know exactly what did it, playing snare on the high school drumline for three of the four years.  And I have two distinct pitches, corresponding to the olders style drums with the through-shell lugs that were at one pitch, and corresponding to when we switched to free-floaters that could be cranked down much, much tighter for a much higher pitch.

The silence itself wouldn't be the problem, it would be hearing only the tinnitus that would be.
 
foo monkey
2023-02-03 7:12:12 PM  
A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.

Don't threaten me with a good time.
 
TWX
2023-02-03 7:12:23 PM  

Tom Marvolo Bombadil: They could have charged so much money to let people experience this during the 2010 world cup.


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Dead for Tax Reasons
2023-02-03 7:13:11 PM  

RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...


as much as mine would provide a nice background hum, it might drive me crazy to only hear the tinnitus.   never had noise cancelling headphones until recently and they bug me out if they are just blocking everything out without producing sound.  it's like the tinnitus is turned up to 80db
 
neapoi [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:13:20 PM  
I would genuinely love to spend time in there.
 
RyansPrivates [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:15:34 PM  

capt.snicklefritz: C18H27NO3: After a few minutes, you'll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.

Has anyone researched what sex is like in an anechoic chamber?
/I have an idea what those sounds would be but I'm having difficulty putting them down as written words.

Likely akin to the sound of two raw porkchops being slapped against one another.


With barbeque sauce, of course.

Might also include the sounds of weighlifters exerting themselves for good measure.
 
TWX
2023-02-03 7:15:46 PM  

Dead for Tax Reasons: RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

as much as mine would provide a nice background hum, it might drive me crazy to only hear the tinnitus.   never had noise cancelling headphones until recently and they bug me out if they are just blocking everything out without producing sound.  it's like the tinnitus is turned up to 80db


I surprisingly don't mind noise-canceling headphones.  But I don't know just how good the headphones are.  They reduce the volume, but don't entirely block all of it out.
 
shinji3i
2023-02-03 7:18:08 PM  
I prefer
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Fabric_Man [BareFark]
2023-02-03 7:20:40 PM  
I think it would be interesting to hear all the fluids sloshing around my body, or the wind of my breathing whistling past my trachea. Could I hear myself blink? That'd be neat!

But seriously, why did Microsoft build this crazy room?
 
ParadoxDice
2023-02-03 7:20:48 PM  
After a few minutes, you'll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.


What's creepy is that your body always makes those sounds. You just can't hear it.
 
Dead for Tax Reasons
2023-02-03 7:21:13 PM  

TWX: Dead for Tax Reasons: RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

as much as mine would provide a nice background hum, it might drive me crazy to only hear the tinnitus.   never had noise cancelling headphones until recently and they bug me out if they are just blocking everything out without producing sound.  it's like the tinnitus is turned up to 80db

I surprisingly don't mind noise-canceling headphones.  But I don't know just how good the headphones are.  They reduce the volume, but don't entirely block all of it out.


they don't block everything out, but whatever they do just accentuates the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.  even worse than like just being in silence when going to sleep, which just feels like a soothing white noise
 
thanksagainandagain
2023-02-03 7:22:55 PM  

C18H27NO3: After a few minutes, you'll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.

Has anyone researched what sex is like in an anechoic chamber?
/I have an idea what those sounds would be but I'm having difficulty putting them down as written words.


Lots of wah wah?
 
skiinstructor
2023-02-03 7:23:07 PM  
For natural silence you can't beat a nice fresh few feet of nice fluffy powder early in the morning after a storm comes through, before everyone gets in their cars and starts making noise.
 
Earthworm Jim Jones
2023-02-03 7:24:08 PM  
I want to take like 2 hits of acid and give it a whirl.
 
Autoerotic Defenestration [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:24:10 PM  
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baronbloodbath [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:26:06 PM  

skiinstructor: For natural silence you can't beat a nice fresh few feet of nice fluffy powder early in the morning after a storm comes through, before everyone gets in their cars and starts making noise.


The Japanese have a word for it: shinshin.

I call it the silence after snowfall, which would make a great book name if I ever write one.
 
Pestifer [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:27:08 PM  
I've spent tens of hours in sensory deprivation tanks and find them relaxing. The most I've done at a stretch was eight hours (a nights sleep, basically). Of course, I'm pretty deaf and find wearing hearing aids annoying. I'd love to try an anechoic chamber.
 
Hey Nurse! [OhFark]
2023-02-03 7:28:50 PM  

RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...


My left ear. 3 years now. Went to doc, sorry can't do crap about it. I bought some AirPods with noise cancellation and run some soft white noise. Impractical to do all the time, but it does take the edge off when it's a little too quiet.
 
RyansPrivates [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:29:55 PM  

Fabric_Man: I think it would be interesting to hear all the fluids sloshing around my body, or the wind of my breathing whistling past my trachea. Could I hear myself blink? That'd be neat!

But seriously, why did Microsoft build this crazy room?


Someone mentioned in the comments it is used for testing for microphones, speakers, etc.  That makes sense, but I suppose could also be used to measure with good accuracy the absolute noise of something like an Xbox, pc, keyboard, or other peripheral.
 
Thingster
2023-02-03 7:31:14 PM  

Fabric_Man: I think it would be interesting to hear all the fluids sloshing around my body, or the wind of my breathing whistling past my trachea. Could I hear myself blink? That'd be neat!

But seriously, why did Microsoft build this crazy room?


Yes, you can hear yourself blink.

It's kind of a moist, high pitched popping sound.  You can also hear your eyelids moving across the surface of your eye as you blink.
 
twocent
2023-02-03 7:32:52 PM  
About a year ago I thought  "...glad I don't have tinnitus like my mom did".
Then I listened for a few seconds and heard a thousand crickets in my head. They haven't shut up since.

Don't listen. Really. Don't.
 
The Irresponsible Captain [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:33:45 PM  
I don't know for sure I could beat that but I'd sure like to see.

Mmm. Quiet.
 
zerkalo
2023-02-03 7:33:51 PM  
Baffling
 
Kavyboy
2023-02-03 7:35:15 PM  
Can Silence Actually Drive You Crazy?
Youtube mXVGIb3bzHI

Derek Muller (aka Veritasium guy) sat in a similar room for about an hour. He found it was no problem. Five hours wouldn't have been a problem.
 
brigid_fitch [BareFark]
2023-02-03 7:35:42 PM  

RogermcAllen: Jokes on you suckers, tinnitus means I've always got a friend.  I call him E.  It's short for Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...


Damn you--now MY tinnitus is synched up and echoing!
 
cyberspacedout
2023-02-03 7:38:07 PM  
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Official Video)
Youtube aGSKrC7dGcY
 
Thingster
2023-02-03 7:39:01 PM  

RyansPrivates: Fabric_Man: I think it would be interesting to hear all the fluids sloshing around my body, or the wind of my breathing whistling past my trachea. Could I hear myself blink? That'd be neat!

But seriously, why did Microsoft build this crazy room?

Someone mentioned in the comments it is used for testing for microphones, speakers, etc.  That makes sense, but I suppose could also be used to measure with good accuracy the absolute noise of something like an Xbox, pc, keyboard, or other peripheral.


That's what the one I've used is used for - absolute sound level coming from an emitter, to measure sound levels at exact frequencies without having to worry about resonance or harmonies.

Last time I was in there, the setup was for vacuum cleaners and analyzing the sounds they put out under load.
 
BunkyBrewman [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:40:29 PM  
Of course many of us think we could handle an hour in that room.  Sure, we could talk, sing, whatever.  But any sound we make will be absorbed by the room without any chance to bounce back in the room.   It has to be a weird sensation to say the least
 
oldfarthenry [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:41:07 PM  
A fart must sound like a shotgun blast in it.
Yeah-yeah, login checks out.
 
CrustyHoor
2023-02-03 7:44:13 PM  

capt.snicklefritz: C18H27NO3: After a few minutes, you'll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.

Has anyone researched what sex is like in an anechoic chamber?
/I have an idea what those sounds would be but I'm having difficulty putting them down as written words.

Likely akin to the sound of two raw porkchops being slapped against one another.


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darinwil
2023-02-03 7:45:37 PM  

C18H27NO3: After a few minutes, you'll already start to hear your own heartbeat. A few minutes after that, you can hear your own bones grinding and blood flowing.

Has anyone researched what sex is like in an anechoic chamber?
/I have an idea what those sounds would be but I'm having difficulty putting them down as written words.


Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
 
LoneVVolf [TotalFark]
2023-02-03 7:47:05 PM  

Fabric_Man: But seriously, why did Microsoft build this crazy room?


To sequester developers in after the annual "move all the f*cking icons and menus around in Office" update.
 
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