World's Quietest Place

[dallasjustice]

Microsoft Building 87
https://news.microsoft.com/stories/building87/audio-lab.php

What does Microsoft do with this? They don't make speakers, right?

 

[Soniclife]

What does Microsoft do with this? They don't make speakers, right?

What else are they going to spend all that money on?

 

[amirm]

Yes. They actually had to use a pair of B&K microphones that cancel each other's noise as to measure how noisy the room is. It is that quiet!

 

[amirm]

What else are they going to spend all that money on?

Truth to be told, we built a $300K room to do our audio testing in my group so I can't complain about them doing this. Then again, I can't fathom the need for anything they develop for such a room.

 

[dallasjustice]

Truth to be told, we built a $300K room to do our audio testing in my group so I can't complain about them doing this. Then again, I can't fathom the need for anything they develop for such a room.

Maybe you could have your next Pacific Northwest Audiophile Society meeting there?

 

[RayDunzl]

What does Microsoft do with this?

The Zune Sales Training Room wasn't quiet enough to be realistic, so they built this one for Phone Sales Training?

 

[amirm]

Maybe you could have your next Pacific Northwest Audiophile Society meeting there?

It is a small space so not good for a meeting. Then again, if it has only room for me, that would be good enough.

 

[Wombat]

It has to be Fremer's listening room for him to be able to hear what he claims to hear.

The cramped space seems to be treated with audio clutter to carefully manage room affect. I wonder how DSP room compensation would fare here? It would need to cope with those near-head reflective surfaces.

 

[Arnold Krueger]

It has to be Fremer's listening room for him to be able to hear what he claims to hear.

The cramped space seems to be treated with audio clutter to carefully manage room affect. I wonder how DSP room compensation would fare here? It would need to cope with those near-head reflective surfaces.

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IME store rooms tend to be on the dead side. The clutter does not seem to be optimally distributed for best effect.