This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces


These smart people at MIT may have found something that has possibilities for audio applications.  I'll take a couple of bolts of this.

 

 

abnerjack

@lalitk There are a variety of sound control curtains available now…. we use them in the recording studio and especially the mix / mastering area. Best to you

jim

Titanium and rhodium are both high velocity materials and make the sound much more reflective. Cryo treatment would make those 2 materials more linear but still way to bright. Silk by nature is very low shear and low velocity.

TomD

@unsound 

It seems the possibilities are endless.  How about using it to block the infernal snoring of one's partner.  Now all we need is for someone to roll out the product.

 

Some have commented it might be very expensive. Perhaps. But if it became standardized and developed as a building material, audiophiles would benefit the way we do when we make our own absorbers, now.