Noisy neighbors upstairs? Efforts are underway to protect your health from 'impact sounds': new study

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A study shared in Nashville at an Acoustical Society of America meeting found that 'jolting' sounds made by people walking barefoot in apartments aren't considered in building codes — and should be.

The international team, including researchers from Germany and Korea, set out to study the connection between building codes' performance metrics and the perceived annoyance by the potential occupants using standardized laboratory measurements.

"The goal was to provide a realistic acoustical environment for the study so that the participants could imagine themselves in a living room situation," Mueller-Trapet said.People walked and dropped objects on the top-floor assembly as the researchers recorded the impact sounds.headphones or loudspeakers"We used a spatial recording and playback technique called Ambisonics to create a realistic sound field for each listening condition," Mueller-Trapet said.

In all the studies, they used the same interface to provide the same sounds and asked the participants the same questions about how they perceived those sounds.

 

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Get off it

A ceiling is a large transducer of low frequency sound from the adjoing floor joists. Maybe rethinking floor joists and attaching them to an exterior superstructure may reduce the direct low frequency transfer.

This what we're wasting money on today?

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My mom kept me up everynight with orgasmic screams, and let me tell you, the train of drunk men in and out everynight could care less about my quality of sleep.

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