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Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by Kye »

dunefox wrote: post #326
ihateolives wrote: post #300

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Whoa. That building must be paper thin then. I know they produce sound (we had one), but that's still worlds apart from having someone practice a piece way over their heads days on end.

No, it's a german building, so brick walls, etc.

The irony is better materials cut out more higher frequencies, so without bass baffling, that's all that comes through. It ends up being more annoying. See also: TVs at reasonable volumes annoying people in the next room because it's all fwoom boom grrrscreeecrshhhhh with no context to piece together what's actually happening, and all down in frequencies that are hard to tune out.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by albrewer »

gonehome wrote: post #56
seattle_spring wrote: post #29

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People are so unbelievably disrespectful with noise in the US. Peaceful hike? Here's Katy Perry crackling out of my iPhone at full blast! Luxury apartment at $4k a month? No insulation between units, and the guy above you comes home at 2am and never takes his shoes off. Small country street? Here comes Chad with his straight-piped civic with the muffler removed!

I find by far the biggest disruption in US suburbs is lawn equipment. Suburbs are louder than cities imo because there is always a leaf blower, lawn mower, and weedwacker going at all times during the day within 100 yards of you. Often for hours. Moving from Palo Alto to SF things got way quieter.

Don't forget circular saws, nail guns, and your neighbor's project car that hasn't had a muffler in 3 years.

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by throwaway378037 »

zeta0134 wrote: post #150
QuikAccount wrote: post #26

Anecdata but I recently got headphones with noise cancelling and my quality of life shot through the roof. According to my smartwatch, my heart rate is lower and stress levels are down. Unfortunately, I have to take my headphones off to go to sleep and I'm immediately reminded of the shoddy fridge in my apartment, vent noises, and my neighbor who doesn't realize it's 11:30 PM.

To finally solve for this, I installed a set of 2.1 computer speakers under my bed, and I have my phone run a 10 hour recording I found of an air conditioner. The noise this generates sounds just like the real thing, and I keep it juuuust loud enough to drown out the road noise and upstairs neighbor's heavy footsteps. A click or two louder if their dog starts going nuts at 3am. I'd prefer actual quiet, but a low stea…

That sounds like a fantastic setup. I wanted to rig something like that over the top of the bed, but underneath would be elegant. I can highly recommend 10 hour rainstorm sounds as well, similar noise profile to industrial white noise but has a more natural association for me

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by throwaway378037 »

nojs wrote: post #234
zeta0134 wrote: post #150

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To finally solve for this, I installed a set of 2.1 computer speakers under my bed, and I have my phone run a 10 hour recording I found of an air conditioner. The noise this generates sounds just like the real thing, and I keep it juuuust loud enough to drown out the road noise and upstairs neighbor's heavy footsteps. A click or two louder if their dog starts going nuts at 3am. I'd prefer actual quiet, but a low stea…

I use the Bose “sleep buds” which do exactly this but in your ears. After reading this article though, I wonder if such white noise is good or bad (my recording of choice, ironically, is train noise).

Try rainstorm recordings instead maybe?

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by throwaway378037 »

jborichevskiy wrote: post #168
latchkey wrote: post #102

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My quality of sleep shot through the roof when I started sleeping with earplugs many years ago. Much deeper sleep. Now, I can't fall asleep without them. I have an unproven theory in my head that shutting off my hearing while I sleep, quiets my subconscious and even when I'm asleep, my ears are still working so this helps another part of my brain rest as well.

Another happy ear plugger chiming in. I have them in every backpack and suitcase now because it makes falling asleep anywhere a fairly consistent experience -- along with an eye mask to be complete. These are the best ones I've found so far: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M6AI2HF/ref=ppx_yo_dt...

Any recommendations for a good sleeping mask? Mine tends to fall off and doesn’t block 100%

Re: Sounding the alarm: How noise hurts the heart (2021)

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Post by throwaway378037 »

dinkleberg wrote: post #146
drdeadringer wrote: post #99

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On top of that, if anybody knows of similar for folks who sleep on their side I would like suggestions//insight.

I’m a side sleeper and have slept with ear plugs in for nearly the past decade (hard for me to sleep without them now). I currently use Mack’s ear plugs, but I imagine they are pretty much all the same. Just look for some foam ones. The first couple of times it feels strange, but you get used to it quickly.

Mack’s are amazing! I only just discovered them recently

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Post by brimble »

irrational wrote: post #68
tayo42 wrote: post #27

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I had this "conversation" with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn't be so angry? I guess this study supports that. The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the…

One thing I remember from living in Puerto Rico for a few years was the vans with huge loudspeakers on top that would go around blaring political messages. This was 30 years ago, so maybe it is different now. I’m so thankful that kind of thing doesn’t fly on the mainland.

This used to be a more common thing, including on the mainland. It's still depicted in TV and film, sometimes. There's a (probably intentionally goofily anachronistic) political ad van featured in Steven Universe, for instance. There's also one (in the "present day", that is, 1985) in Back to the Future.

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Post by sarchertech »

ajuc wrote: post #229
adhesive_wombat wrote: post #219

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America fascinates me because half of the time things are functionally unregulated, and the other half of the time there's a law about Kinder Eggs and the exact height your lawn must be.

We're playing Call of Cthulhu pen&paper RPG campaign set in modern USA. Our DM has to check the laws in each state often, and usually it derails the session by how completely absurd it is. Like our party was able to carry a bazooka around openly in one state :)

I'd be careful extrapolating too much from a literal reading of state laws.

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Post by sarchertech »

burntoutfire wrote: post #253
sarchertech wrote: post #132

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If the insulation isn’t the same, you can’t really compare the 2. I could take a nap in an active construction site with good enough earplugs. Garbage pickup is once a week, and the truck is close enough for me to hear it for maybe 15 minutes. Double that for recycling pickup. I live a few miles from the city center, in just about the densest area where people still have lawns. There are maybe 5 houses close enough t…

> Garbage pickup is once a week, and the truck is close enough for me to hear it for maybe 15 minutes. Double that for recycling pickup. Around me, there are three different recycling pickups (one for the each kind of recyclable). Combined with regular trash pickup, it means that the garbage truck is here on most work days.

That's definitely not the norm in the US. A quick google search shows that less than 1/3 of US houses have access to curb side recycling at all, much less weekly recycling for extra items like glass.

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Post by bogomipz »

grapeskin wrote: post #77
tayo42 wrote: post #27

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I had this "conversation" with my neighbor (it was more like me being yelled at) It kind of blew my mind they didnt care about noise interruptions at all hours and told me its my problem. Like maybe if you got a full night of sleep you wouldn't be so angry? I guess this study supports that. The noise in my current apartment is endless, car alarms, screaming and crying kids along with their loud toys, idling cars, the…

The absolute best thing about leaving the US several years ago is the silence. I can go to bed every night knowing some random guy won't decide 3 AM on a Wednesday morning is the best day to crank up the bass to max and start a party. I can sleep knowing some old guy isn't going to compensate for his masculinity by revving up his modded motorcycle at 4:30 AM everyday. I can sleep knowing people aren't going to start…

Can you say where you relocated to that provides this?
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