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I live in a smallish apartment complex. My listening room is a 12' x 17' section of a larger space that includes the living room, kitchen, the dining area, and my front door. Built in the 1970s, the building is not the epitome of quality construction, and there's a 1/4" gap under my front door. This bugged me for various reasons (draft, some water in the rainy season, outside noise pollution), so yesterday I picked up about 20ft of UL listed silicon rubber teardrop weatherstripping and applied it around my entire door frame. I then closed the door.
Silence.
So quiet, your breathing sounds thunderous.
Lesson from this: You don't realize how much noise pollution exists until it's not there. I'm guessing that ambient noise was reduced by about 10dB, if not more. With so much less noise, you can better hear into the recording -- for better or for worse!
Note that I already have double-paned windows, so the only real transmission of noise was through the cracks around the door.
If your environment is even REMOTELY noisy, you should consider the $20 investment, which is paltry in audiophile monetary values.
-- Nils
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Topic - Weatherstripping: The best $20 I spent - Neuro 13:35:56 09/26/08 (7)
- RE: Weatherstripping: Is it audiophile approved? nt - The Real Dick Hertz 19:50:17 09/26/08 (1)
- RE: Weatherstripping: Is it audiophile approved? nt - Neuro 20:14:43 09/26/08 (0)
- good thought - dave c 13:45:56 09/26/08 (4)
- But can you breathe? - h_h 15:27:54 09/26/08 (3)
- good point, I wondered what caused me to turn blue... - dave c 14:08:36 09/27/08 (2)
- Cool buildings link! ~t - mpathus 14:48:47 09/27/08 (1)
- Gabriel - dave c 14:09:21 09/28/08 (0)
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