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

Thank you so much for posting. I've been kinda obsessed with how noise cancellation could graduate from earphones to bigger scales, but the best answers I've always gotten is that it would take too much energy or would be not feasible for other (practical engineering) reasons.

This could have major (positive) health implications. See this story (about noise) in the New Yorker.

 

@hilde45 

The story in the New Yorker is interesting and enlightening.  I had never thought of how far reaching these noise concerns are.  Thanks.

@abnerjack You're most welcome. And if we, in audio, have not made the connection, it's hard to imagine others fully realizing it (other than the biologists).

@abnerjack 

Thanks for sharing. I will be on lookout for this stop noise bleeding from my dedicated music room. Unfortunately, I can’t install a door so this would be perfect.