Re:We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
by goda90 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:54PM
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Do you know how these musician's earplugs work? I imagine instead of just blocking vibrating air like regular earplugs, it must be trying to dissipate the sound waves a bit. Is that even possible across the whole range of sound?
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Re:We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
by apk-d on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:36PM
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Materials absorb different parts of the frequency spectrum with varying efficiency. Regular earplugs are made to simply stop as much sound as possible and hence there's a lot of muffle at the top of the spectrum (that's easiest to achieve - cover your ears!). Concert earplugs are more carefully designed to absorb the entire spectrum as uniformly as possible.