quietcontemplation.bsky.social
Retired acoustical consultant. Bike advocate. Doomscroller.
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Vance: You didn’t thank us once
Who talks like this? Who asks this in a meeting? We’re dealing with real adults here
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*My* personal liberties. Not yours. You’re workers, not people.
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JFC indeed
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Helium balloons. What rukus are you going to start with a helium balloon? A birthday party?
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“Genius”
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It’s not heartburn. It’s a reminder of the joy you had while eating it
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Then you measure how much noise is in the room below, plot against a standard curve and get the single IIC number rating
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We measure it using a Tapping Machine. A standard one has 5 500 gram weights on a cam set to drop a distance of 40mm, 10 times per second
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It’s not a measure of how well airborne noise travels to the room below (That would be the STC rating) It’s how well it performs due to impacts directly on the floor above
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Trickle down economics… through lawyers. Lots and lots of lawyers
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They’re not even trying to understand all of the other stuff they’ve done, what make anyone think they’re being sincere with with? Like they would even try to make sense of what the general government employee is doing
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I’d be scared going on/sharing the road in these conditions. A) for potentially slipping in the slush and getting run over and B) a car might be sliding around if they try to accelerate too quickly
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These are some of the considerations when we are making changes to our urban environments.
Here are max noise levels should we aim to achieve:
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Ref: cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...
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Masking noise is used to mask nearby sounds so you can’t understand it. But it’s often hit or miss and can really depend on many other factors. Do you sit next to the printer or a loud person? Are you along a hallway where footsteps are boomy? Are rooms available for conf calls?
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Studies show that if you can understand less than 20% of that surrounding speech, your work performance is relatively undisturbed.
OTOH if you can hear/understand more than 50% of that speech, it really hurts your performance
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In these open plan offices, people need to be able to concentrate on work. But those disturbances make that difficult.
Eg. Surrounding speech, if intelligible, significantly reduces your ability to do cognitively demanding tasks.
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Then you have your other senses - the smells, the crowd, the heat, the sights. Without those as well… well you don’t have live music.
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Summary: because there’s a whole heck of acoustics between you and the music at the live event that’s super hard to recreate with two speakers in a small room at home. Even with many surround speakers you then have to have an engineered mix to play.
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Honestly it’s one of those headlines written to capture attention rather than be honest about what the article is about.
The actual meat of the story is partly there though - reasons why you can’t make your home sound system sound like a live event
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We will see. But do you think the MAGA crowd will care? They will deflect and say it’s lasting legacy from Biden or Dems. It’s always this way
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Unfortunately with our long tail, sitting on the back is not as conducive to tucking under blankets as in a basket. Plus they’re not generating any heat from pedalling.
Will likely keep it to -10C lowest with passengers
Remember there’s wind chill