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Well that was pointless.
Was there supposed to be something on the "sound readings" meter? Can I see it?
No.
For what its worth, despite missing the punchline of the actual measurement, the guy knows what he is talking about. Taking a dB measurement in C weighting over some integration period is how to do it for this scenario. I doubt his meter is calibrated but its doing a good job.
Yeah, the non filtering of the lower frequencies happens when done correctly, if I recall. I am curious what that actually is, and I am curious what is making those specific frequencies.
At a certain decibel range of ambient noise, humans become even more sensitive to the lower freqs. Being able to use that knowledge while taking measurements of my own is useful to me.
I would be interested to know the sound signature of gas turbines.
Probably would've been worthless since they were talking over it
I hear it perfectly. It is a sort of background hum.
Not really data though. It could be anything.
"yeah there's a new giant structure and there's a new persistent and pervasive sound in the region that both appeared around the same time, but there's no data connecting the two. It could just be the sound of my own ego"
It's more about what the guy is saying.
Lots of people say lots of things. I was interested in the data. Particularly since he said he was collecting it!
Mr Ben Jordan has a very good video about this. Collects a lot of data
https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?is=LUTnzlWf3e3ltwx4
While standing next to his sound strength measuring setup no less...
He should have showed more.
Did you not hear the noise with your own two ears? Are you that fucking deaf and willfully ignorant that you you need to see a number and can’t, without it, hear exactly what he’s talking about?
“It’s a conversation that never stops, is in your bedroom, and you can’t turn off, ever. It’s not loud but it never stops.” should be more than enough to make the point abundantly clear especially when you can fucking hear the sound in the video.
People like you are insufferable. He had a device and he found it worth using, I too would like to see that device. What the fuck is wrong with you that you need to say I am deaf and willingly ignorant because you don't want to know more?
Damn, people like you make it hard to give a shit about bad things. I just wanted more information, data centers are noisy, I know that. I also have a decibel meter and want to know the db (or dba with calibration) and I am interested in the wave and frequencies. Because, you know, I want to know these things. I am curious about how these sounds are generated. The fans? The cooling system? A back up generator? How are the frequencies effecting people in various other industries?
Sorry you have no interest in the world, and a video of someone saying "its loud" pointing to some trees in the distance is all you the capacity you have for knowledge.
Fuck right off.
You called it “pointless”, thay was the problem. You could not see any worth in the video without seeing the number. Yes, it would be nice to see it, but holy fuck, dipshit, you can kick rocks with attitude.
And let the door hit you on the way out.
Yes it was pointless. There was nothing of interest in that video. There was nothing to take away that was useful or new.
And if you have been on the internet for the last few years, you don't take some dude standing on the porch saying "shits loud" somewhere over there beyond the trees as being anything to make note of.
Come on. We can do better. Data is a worthwhile thing to have.
You are really not looking for allies in this are you? You had no reason to come out swinging and being an asshole.
Literally you can hear the thing in the video. I don’t need to trust his words if I can hear the fucking thing clear as day. I also hadn’t heard the noise like that yet, so it was new to me. You’re just moving the goalposts to justify your shitty attitude.
With allies like you, who needs enemies?
Its the frequencies you can't here that are what you want to pay attention to.
Lots of people live in loud areas, just look at population centers overlayed with highways noise maps.
A noise is simply not that interesting by itself.
I'll bury the hatchet: if the noise gets you interested to learn more then I suppose it isn't pointless.
He literally talked about how the sound never went away like with highways. I live in a city, night time is significantly quieter without all the cars ripping around. Cities are actually pretty damn quiet, it’s the cars that are loud. He said it felt like a low conversation that never, ever stopped and that it was impossible to get away from, even in his own bedroom where us city folk are pretty safe from too much sound.
I’m sure that sounds we can’t hear are also really bad, not arguing that, and I am also not arguing that the data itself would be awesome(they may be compiling and not ready to put all the data out yet) and thank you for the acknowledgement.
There are plenty of highways that almost never stop these days, while their peak hours are much louder than this. That was a huge frustration for me, this amount of noise (conversational decibels) is really not much and very hard to relate to by audio from a clip alone.
Think of all the people that live near freeways with international airports next to those. Airplanes coming and going all day, traffic constantly.
That's why I wanted to see data and get a real distance from the data center, and an actual db reading. I just can't do anything with this video.
Another example is wind turbines. Near constant noise https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=78QwBM_AD3s
How loud exactly is that? At least I have some sense of the distance. People are concerned about the frequencies of these too, although a Finnish study could find no correlation.