The LOUDEST vs QUIETEST Room In The World 

I’m already scared of the sound of popping balloons as it’s so loud , I can’t imagine doing that in the loudest room in the world

I worked fr a company that had an anechoic chamber for testing. One of the engineers let me inside and asked if I wanted to be shut in with the lights off. He warned me that it might be a bit unsettling, so he only allowed 5 min. of total dark/quiet. 5 minutes was enough to let me know that total silence is NOT something my brain could process adequately to adjust. I swear I could hear the blood moving through my body. Swallowing, blinking, breathing, scratching an itch, all became the loudest sounds in my head. I thought I could 'feel' the silence. I guess what I felt was the absence of external pressure. I didn't freak out, but that short time was quite enough. Thanks for doing this!

That one Mosquito in my room when I’m trying to sleep: 3:58

That "quietest room" is probably the one place where I would actually have the courage to sing out loud, knowing that no one else would hear it-

I can't be the only person thinking about how amazing it must be to have a full night's sleep in that room.

I was alone in a library at 4am once and it's the quietest place i have ever experienced. Super relaxing. Great for studying.

As someone with ADD, I wish I had access to a room like that (the anechoic chamber) for meditation. I'd finally be able to focus on my body/breathing without getting distracted by every little noise around me

4:12 your voice is so clear, any voice actor would envy the lack of other sounds.

I remember reading about the ”quietest room in the world” in a book many years ago. It’s a room so quiet, you can hear your own heart beat.

As another adult that is afraid of the dark, I can confidently tell you that its not the dark that scares you, its your imagination, not that that helps me any

Imagine the loudest noise in the loudest room ☠️ ( 0:22 this shows you that it would kill you)

For someone who is deaf in one ear, and struggles to hear people within a close distance, i would be interested in experiencing this, just to be able to finally hear everything that i miss out on a day to day basis. Background noise makes it difficult for me to hear things properly as i go about my life.

I wonder what happens when you leave a deaf person in this room. Do they feel the silence too?

Actually the world's quietest room was the first time I tried standup.

5:56 The scream xD

2:27 man I miss that song

I wish Airplanes were this quiet, instead I get a screaming baby every time

4:02 The mosquito in my room when I try to sleep

You know when it is quiet enough you can hear your heart breath as it beats

im more impressed with the fact that you were able to just sit in that room for 2 hours. I can't even spend 5 minutes not doing anything.

3:57 that random mosquito in the corner of your room be like

The reverberation chamber sound a lot like pressing down the sustain pedal on a piano and playing every single note possible, except the strings don’t stop vibrating.

No matter how quiet it is , my Tinnitus always kicks in like mini sound waves in both my ears

I remember reading about the quitest room in the world many years ago, and there was something like "nobody could spend more that 40 minutes in that room", and I was like... just take my money and let me in. Piece and quiet all the damn time? Like no relatives constantly buzzing you, no calls, NOT A LIVING SOUL disturbing you? I'm in until they find the way to throw me out, cause I'm locking from the inside, bye bye

The quietest room would be the perfect bathroom

I would love to hear Aurora sing in both of these rooms to see how the songs change. There are so many interesting experiments you could do in these rooms.

I have tinnitus so the quietest room sounds like an absolute nightmare. If I’m in my room with no sound the ringing is unbearable. I need to have a fan going just to drown out the ringing, but if it’s as quiet as a room can possibly get, the sound would be so deafening it would probably make me pass out.

Whenever I'm in a dark room without sound I start to feel hyper and on edge resulting in a psychotic laughter

Omg, I'm surrounded by 3M products all the time! Their microplastics are even in my drinking water. :D

I've always wondered how I would do in this room. I LOVE silence. I get over stimmed very easily and I think I would find it very peaceful. I'm glad you shared that you did find it peaceful because other videos I've watched on this I feel that they are overreacting. Thanks for your insights. I don't think I would like the all dark though either.

We need the worlds quietest room in a library

The balloon popping differential was crazy

I have constant ringing in my ears. I would love to try the quiet room, yet I know the ringing would then become deafening. That was a very cool video! Thanks for doing it!

Mitch: **in the world’s loudest room** Also Mitch: **immediately starts singing the periodic table song** Ngl if I were there, I would’ve done the same thing 😂

3:52 it sounds like your trying to watch a video while being really tired and it sounds soo quiet

The closest I ever got to an anechoic chamber is when I went on a cave tour and they asked everyone if they wanted to test their nerve. I said yes so I went to a deep part of the cave and they turned the lights off. It was dead silent and there was no reception, but I did have a long wave radio which can penetrate the ground. I lasted over 45 minutes before my nerves got the better of me.

I would love to go in that room, just to see how loud I can actually scream without worrying about disturbing someone

Have they ever tested eco-location animals like bats having trouble navigating or seem disoriented, just curious.

4:20 The best room for studying

Him: "Bryan then LOCKED me in there alone" Also him: **Closes door himself**

I heard this in max volume (3:35) What he said was: "To see how the volume changes in my voice because the amount of echo reaching the camera and the amount of audio and sound waves reaching, It will change as i get further back especially the fact that there is literally nothing to reverberate it and concentrate it to you, so the level of audio even though, I've stayed the same will probably feel quite different."

The anechoic chamber would honestly be a nightmare for those with ADHD (aka myself.) I need sound to process the bombardment of thoughts that have no off switch in my head, so silence would be decimating to me.

I never goes inside a silent room, but I had a similar experience before and I will tell you, if you go inside a silent room, you will feel as if you're suffocating, your head felt like you wanna explode and you wanna threw up. It's not the best experience, and the best way is to stay silent. And being silent makes you be more wary of surrounding, you will have sensitive hearing and it will eventually drive you insane. I know some ppl thought that it would be fun to stay inside a silent room and chill but it's different experience altogether :)

5:04 Apparently, staying in a room like this is also really hard because many people can hear their own heart beat. A loud heart generally means that you're in danger.

anechoic chamber: insanity test neurodivergent people: wow this is so relaxing //falls asleep// anechoic chamber: *no wait that wasnt supposed to happen*

I wonder how a room like that would affect somebody with ADD.

7:55 Welcome to Helen Keller's World

I've been on sound proof rooms where generators work without them working and when you first enter the room and "hear" the silence is very strange but after a while you get used to it

I remember going to a science and technology museum at one point. It had an exhibit based around sound, and it had a decently sized anechoic chamber. It was weird to be in there for more than just a couple of minutes.

Man, if i was in the silent room, with the lights off, I’d lose my mind. I’m not scared OF the dark, but what may be in it, and not having the awareness of even the smallest bit if light will freak me out

thank god he was wearing safety glasses in the quiet room

3:57 Pov: You are the mosquito in my room just before I fall asleep

2:20 I non-jokingly love this part, I've listened to it over and over again lol

Now you almost know what it's like for someone who goes deaf after being able to hear. I say almost, since you could still hear your body noises. And with the lights out, you caught a glimpse of Hellen Kellers world. No sight, no sound, her whole life. Now you know.

The quietest experience I've ever feel in my bed room is when there was a power outage at my place. In that moment, I can hear the clock ticking, and I can even hear my own heartbeat.. Before I'm going crazy, I quickly play some music with my earphone and sleep..

3:57 when there's a bee nearby but you can't see it

Cool Happening! Have you ever tried a Sensory Deprivation Tank? You sit/lie in a tank with a saturated solution of (I think) magnesium sulfate, Epsom Salt. If you haven't, give it a try and let Us Know. Compare it to the Anechoic Chamber.

In a room like this, I'll probably go crazy with my tinnitus....

The quietest room in the world is what teachers expect the cafeteria to be like.

1:57 Those safety goggles added to the sound reflection.

2:08 My students' brains when I try to explain fractions.

As an audio engineer, I was so impressed how much crispy the audio was at that distance in this chamber! Damn. Adele should make an album here! Edit: Damn. That's a lot of likes!

3:56 that one mosquito in your room while you are trying to sleep

I really want to see what happens when you hit the resonant frequency in the reverberation chamber. How loud will it get?

*I would love to spend the night in that chamber get the best sleep of my life*

Would be interesting to see the difference between neurotical vs schizoid type mental illnesses in the anechoic chamber/sensory deprivation tanks. The whole "going crazy" idea is moreso just giving space for everyday intrusive thoughts or images to run wild without distraction.

6:04 guess what??... i would just sleep at this point 😂😂 who cares about that room or dark ... It's just like night 😴🤣

The loudest place in the world: when i set a bombox 200% volume at my room

"This is one of the loudest rooms in the world" My bedroom when Mario says "buh-bye!" on my DS under the pillow: *I beg to differ*

4:07 mosquito singing near my ears

Quietest room in the world is when you’re trying to drop a deuce and someone is in the stall next to you 😢

3:58 random mosquitoes when you try to sleep

Sounds scientists: 20 minutes in a silent room will drive you crazy. Every mom in the world: TRY ME! I'M GONNA TAKE A NAP!

This feels like the reverse of the siren room from "Hunting by Stars". It's an AMAZING, and I mean F*CKING AMAZING book by an author named Cherie Dimaline, and what happens is that, to break his will, this one guy is locked in a room that has nothing in it but bright lights, a two-way mirror, and a SCREAMING siren. He says the sound matches the pitch of his panic, and actually puts him on the floor it's so loud. I don't know what would break someone faster, though: sensory deprivation, or sensory overload? If you're going to read this book, though, and I IMMENSELY recommend it, you have to read "The Marrow Thieves" first. "Hunting by Stars" is its direct sequel.

Bro got out sounding fruity for a minute 😂 7:45

this was so cool to watch! Can't help but imagine that the dark silent room is what Helen Keller experienced for most of her life. Much time for philosophizing. :)

As an individual who loves silence, darkness and being alone. This would be heaven! As long as I had a pillow and couple of blankets. I must be comfy :)

Honestly, when I first contemplated the idea of no life after death, that's exactly what I envisioned. Except that instead of an hour, it'd be an eternity. And as you can imagine that really freaked me out as a little kid

That one mosquito, that starts to troll me and fly just above my face when I am just about to fall asleep. 3:59

7:03 its a great place to get into deep sleep,, I like to live there for life. I hate chaos.

4:35 that is some scp stuff right here

What's interesting about this is it shows how little of what you hear is actually the direct sound from an object. Generally, the direct sound is what's used to localize something, but the reflections you hear from the first sound to about 80ms afterwards are what actually composes the bulk of what you perceive as the "sound" from something. From my experience, the direct sound is what's used to localize, while the indirect sound contains the actual perceived acoustic signature along with the cues as to the surrounding environment the source is in (i.e. small room, concert hall, outdoors, etc.). You can get a similar effect after it snows. Outside peoples voices sound muted compared to what you would normally hear. Of course, the above is the two extremes, where either all the sound is absorbed and there are no reflections, or allowed to reflect until its eventually attenuated by the losses in the air itself.

2:20 me trying to listen to what the priest is saying at church 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Dude who showed you around was great on camera no camera shyness at all man

I remember veritasium doing this ages ago, nice to see these topics covered by a variety of channels.

At 2:23 I literally sing along. Its so catchy and helpful. A reminder of when you will make the same song but the elements vertically.😬✋

3:58 that one mosquito before i go to sleep:

The first room is when you try to sneak out in the middle of the night but the floorboards say no.

I once traveled to Maui, to the top of Haleakala, at night. I would think that's the quietest place I've been. It was a bit unnerving, but a super memorable feeling. Almost a deafening hum in my ears (which I assume was my blood pumping), and I could hear my friend's stomach growl from 25 feet away

I used to work for them and they have the absolute best of engineering teams and these rooms actually have many real life applications. They're fun but also very useful.

3:27 man, i love the A-300 sound that was made

The loudest room in the world is my unseperable mom and her sister together after 3 seconds of not talking to eachother

As an Introvert, that is the most special room to me. Peace and Quiet in Darkness

0:25 Uh, no. The loudest room in the world is one's bathroom when the shampoo bottle falls over in the tub. You also missed the perfect opportunity to sing the Halo theme song while in the reverberation room.

The sound of a balloon popping in the quietest room sounds like one bloon popping in BTD5

2:25 the way he says “Beryllium” is so cool

Wild thing to think about. But I really want to try tattooing in the anechoic chamber. As a tattoo artist I notice that my clients react differently to the tattoo experience when the machine is powder or quieter so I’m super curious how loud my machines are in total isolation and what someone would think exploring that sensory experience with the sound minimized as much as possible.

This sounds like a fun experience! I would like to try it out one day 😄 P.s. I loved that you were singing the periodic table song hahaa

3:58 that one mosquito at 2:00 AM.

I wonder what pure silence would sound like, Because most people have never herd it from the background noises, wind electricity nature sounds, so I kinda wanna go in one of these rooms