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albert_e ◴[] No.43715256[source]
Tangentially related

I once picked up my memory foam mattress and stood it up against one of the walls ... for cleaning the bed or whatever.

As I walked past the mattress I instantly noticed that the mattress is such a good absorber of audio waves that I could immediately notice a dip in ambient sound in the ear facing the mattress.

The room was already "silent" and this newly discovered lower limit of silence was pretty surprising to me physiologically.

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meindnoch ◴[] No.43715878[source]
Everyone should try a real anechoic chamber once. The silence there is deafening.
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cf100clunk ◴[] No.43719238[source]
If you are handy to an R&D lab that has a combo Faraday Cage/anechoic chamber you can have a nice experience free of RF and audio noise and stimulus. Even better if it is dimly lit in near-infrared. Even better-better if it has a tank of warm water with lots of epsom salts, although I've never been in a lab that had such a thing as a requirement.
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meindnoch ◴[] No.43719573[source]
I'm skeptical of shielding yourself from RF noise having any detectable effect.

Unless you have amalgam tooth fillings, that anecdotally can act as a crude diode, and demodulate strong enough AM signals.

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1. jononor ◴[] No.43732163[source]
RF anechoic chambers are, as a side effect of their construction, pretty low echo also when it comes to audible frequencies. I have spent a bit of time in one (EMC testing a product), and it was the quietest room I have been in by far.