Comment on Noise-canceling robots to 'mute' loud conversations in cafe | What if we told you that we can actually silence a noisy table right next to us in a café?

• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Thankfully double would only be 3db, and 10db is about a doubling by our perception?

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  • br3d@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes - but 3db is twice the energy, which is what matters when it comes to damaging your cochlea

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I feel like this doesn’t happen very often though. I mean I wear sound canceling headphones all the time and I’ve never noticed it accidentally making anything louder. Then again, I don’t normally stand near jet engines.

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  • K3zi4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t imagine noise cancelling headphones would have the ability to output high enough for serious damage. But some people do experience discomfort and pressure when using noise cancelling headphones for the first time, this could be due to a number of factors though.

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  • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My noise cancelling headphones make wind noise much louder when it’s really windy.

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