Despite the popularity brought by the “challenge,” the Orfield chamber still plays an important role in research. It has been ...

Microsoft’s anechoic chamber in the Audio Labs holds the Guinness World Records title for the quietest place on Earth. Microsoft. This will likely lead you to lose your balance due to the lack ...

In the anechoic chamber, you don't have any cues. "You take away the perceptual cues that allow you to balance and manoeuvre.

It’s a full anechoic chamber, and it’s the only one in the city. There are no secrets to be found inside, only silence. The word anechoic itself means “no echo.” ...

There are quieter anechoic chambers elsewhere in the U.S. for sound testing, but for the purpose of radio frequency testing, a hum — or even blasting rock music — doesn’t matter.

But there is an advantage to having a chamber that registers at -24 decibels. "We can test products that nobody in the United States can test because of that," said Orfield.

The group tour includes a 20-minute session in the anechoic chamber. If even that doesn’t seem like enough time, for $400 you can spend an hour in the room in a private session—and really get ...

In 2004, Guinness World Records certified the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories as the quietest place on Earth, with an ambient sound level of –9.4 decibels A-weighted.