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Re:Engineers create synthetic, sound-silencing structure tha... by sinab on Sunday July 07, 2019 @06:03PM (#20378243)
I'm surprised no one has discussed the possibility of using this device for reducing snoring sound transmission. I need to read the paper [1] more carefully but on first glance it seems like the effectiveness is best around 450 Hz and snoring is about 150Hz [2].

[1] https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.99.02...

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12071989

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Re:Engineers create synthetic, sound-silencing structure tha... by AstralStorm on Monday July 08, 2019 @04:16AM (#20380876)
Snoring is too wideband either, and is impulse noise where this is even less effective.
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