I Survived the World's Loudest Room

Summary by Krater

The creator attempts to spend time in the world's quietest room, Orfield Laboratories' anechoic chamber, and then tests how long he can endure the world's loudest room by blasting chamber music and heavy metal through large speakers.

From the video

Answers: What happens when you spend time in the world's quietest and loudest rooms?

• anechoic chamber experiment
• reverb room sound test
• audio decibel comparison
• sound reflection and acoustics
• human endurance in extreme acoustic environments

What it concludes

• The world record for time spent inside the world's quietest room is 45 minutes.
• A reverb room is a room that is close to 100% reflective, meaning sound does not get louder or quieter and is perfectly diffuse.
• Unlike being outside where talking louder makes you louder, in a reverb room the louder you talk the worse it is due to sound reflection.
• The amount of sound you can get out of an iPhone in America cannot be obtained in Europe because European regulations do not allow it.
• Spending 10 years in the loudest room would result in significant hearing loss.