Questions tagged [sound]
Hacks related to either improving sound from a speaker or in a room, or preventing an unwanted sound.
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What can I do if someone sitting nearby snores loudly in a library?
I was reading in a public library when someone started snoring. I thought a librarian would step in, but I cannot find one right now in this room.
There are about 30 readers in this room, but no one ...
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How to plant sound in roof
So I have this somewhat peculiar problem where my upstairs neighbor creates a lot of noise.
It typically starts at 6am with something that sounds like someone moving all the furniture around. It ...
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How do I get a sound every 25 seconds
Unusual problem here… I need a cheap device that can emit a click or chirp every 25±5 seconds, for at least 26 hours.
Basically, I need a metronome but the $5 devices all begin at 30 beats per minute, ...
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I spilled cooking oil on my kitchen floor, now my floor squeeks
I spilled used cooking oil in my kitchen pantry floor. I used the flour method to successfully clean it up, but now the floor on the other side of the wall has a pretty loud creak when walking on it. ...
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How to filter out bird chirping from the background in live teams / zoom calls
I have to move to our living room where we do have two budgies. If I will be in a zoom or teams call and I talk, they will start talking as well. Currently I am looking for a nice setup to filter out ...
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How to reduce the noise of the mini printing machine?
I am staying in a house that the wall is quite thin, that is why I bought a printing machine.
However, after buying, I found out that my printing machine works a little bit noisy. I am wondering how ...
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How to find source of deep humming?
Every few days to weeks, I hear a very deep humming noise. It's so deep that some older people might not even hear it, but just loud enough to annoy me and sometimes even cause headache. It often ...
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Adding a temporary door
I host my brother for the weekends sometimes and he sleeps in the basement. There is a doorway by the stairs down to the basement, but there is no door of any kind there.
As such, when he's sleeping ...
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Coping with the dynamic loudness inequality of a Zoom classroom
A Zoom elementary-school class can be heard in my home every weekday. The teacher and most kids sound fine. But one or two kids either have poor-quality/faulty hardware, or their microphone preference ...
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Sound insulation over laminate flooring?
We recently moved in a new property it's a two bedroom flat with laminate flooring in the entrance hall and in the lounge. I bought a rug but downfloor neighbors complain when our children play, run ...
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How do I live with noisy neighbors?
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I live in a small appartment in a densely populated building (6 floors, 24 apartments per floor).
I have no furniture. I work on the floor. I sleep on the floor.
My downstairs neighbors ...
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Is there a technique to check if the people downstairs can hear us running on a treadmill without asking them?
So, I have a treadmill placed on a floor mat. The floor vibrates due to the force of running and my sofa vibrates due to this.
Not just treadmill, if I do cardio exercises on a rubber mat, the floor ...
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How to make trimmer sound less
I got new baby boy and in our religion we shave baby hair. I was thinking of using trimmer but as trimmer has loud sound. What can be a better way to make the sound of trimmer less? So the child don’t ...
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DIY sound insulation material for high frequencies
Some component in my computer emits an annoying high pitched sound, like a constant screetching. I'd really like to dampen the sound while providing enough air flow for the computer. The computer is ...
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Lessen sound vibration from speakers
I live in an apt. and would like to lessen the sound transmittance from my stereo speakers.
I have foam around them now.
Does it look like it does a good job of minimizing the sound being ...
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