Can You Visit The World S Quietest Room

The guinness book of world records bestowed this title on the anechoic chamber at orfield labs in minneapolis minnesota.

Can you visit the world s quietest room.

Everybody seems to be looking for a little peace and quiet these days. One of the quietest sounds that can be heard in a quiet room calm breathing clocks in at 10db. The quieter the room the more things you hear. 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.

Inside the world s quietest room. But even such a reasonable idea can go too far. 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. A normal quiet room has a sound level of about 30 decibels while humans can only hear sounds that are above 0 decibel.

The idea was to create walls floor and ceiling that absorb sound rather than have it bounce off as it does generally. You ll hear your heart beating sometimes you can hear your lungs hear your stomach gurgling loudly. The quietest place on earth an anechoic chamber at orfield laboratories in.