Microsoft constructed the world’s quietest location in 2015. Although it may seem like a haven of meditative bliss, few people can endure spending a long period in space.
You’ll start to hear your own heartbeat after a while. You may hear your own blood pumping and bones grinding if you wait a little while. The almost complete silence will eventually cause an intolerable ringing in your ears if outside noise is not allowed in. When the pleasure is over, you’ll probably lose your balance because the lack of reverberation in space interferes with your natural sense of balance.
In the outside world, our ears are always exposed to some level of noise. But in the chamber, there is no air pressure at all on the eardrums because there is no echo. “As soon as one enters the room, one immediately feels a strange and unique sensation that is hard to describe,” Hundraj Gopal, a speech and hearing scientist and the designer of Microsoft’s anechoic chamber, told CNN. “Most people find the absence of sound deafening, feel a sense of fullness in the ears, or some ringing. Very faint sounds become clearly audible because the ambient noise is exceptionally low. When you turn your head, you can hear that motion. “You can hear yourself breathing, and it sounds somewhat loud.”
The concrete bunker just overtook a Minneapolis chamber with noise levels of -9.4 decibels to claim the Guinness World Record for being the world’s quietest location. The Orfield Laboratory, formerly known as “the quietest place on earth” (see below), is now accessible to the general public and is a popular tourist destination.
Microsoft’s anechoic chamber isn’t accessible to the general public, which will disappoint anyone courageous enough to test their mettle in the world’s quietest space. The tech behemoth uses it to evaluate a range of audio gear, including speakers, receivers, and microphones, as well as the clicks and hums of other computing equipment.