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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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Shh! Mine was UL listed, but I'm sure that Acoustic Revive could make and sell weather stripping made from six 9s silver and silk blessed by the pope.
I recently had all the doors and windows in my house replaced and that made a huge difference to ambient noise.
Then I went round outside and jammed insulation into every gap I could find and I am now part way though sealing everything up with coverplates.
I can't say or at least I can't quantify how much difference it makes, but my girlfriend has commented a few times on how quiet it is and there is a definite difference in the noise from, say, a truck in the street outside.
Old houses, if they are over-insulated and sealed, no longer have sufficient air exchange with the outside. It's something to keep in mind. Ludicrously, modern building codes ensure total sealing and then mandate electric fans to counter it. I'll take my leaky house and wood stove any day.
Actually you can never really seal up an old house and here in the sub tropics there are windows open for most of the year... probably a good ten months.
Control of breezes is a major issue here and good design can largely escape from the dreaded air-con.
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As you probably figured out, those houses are designed by Gabriel Poole whom I met when I first moved here.
He also designed my first house here.
Although not as well known as Glen Murcutt, Gabriel has spent has life wanting to design affordable houses for ordinary people.
The vernacular style here of corrugated metal and all the stuff you can see in his houses was to a large extent something he has developed.
I imagine he will never get the big fame, but he is a VERY special architect.
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