Airplane cables, each of which hold 1,500 pounds of weight, help keep things quiet while ... "This is a room that not a lot of people experience," said Mike Role, Orfield Laboratories.

In the absence of external sound, the body turns on itself as an instrument, except you're no longer the player, just the ...

Noise reverberates through one room in Orfield Laboratories. Down the hall, another room is deathly quiet. Orfield Laboratories Inc., less than two miles from the University of Minnesota’s West Bank, ...

Environments we think of as ultra-quiet are typically louder ... the quietest room in the world. Located at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, the room achieved “a legitimate measurement ...

Orfield Laboratories ... “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt,” Steven Orfield, the lab’s founder, told the Daily Mail’s Ted Thornhill in 2012. “The quieter the room, the more things ...

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

Inside the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories ... “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more ...

Orfield Labs was bombarded with phone calls and emails from people demanding a shot at winning the money. There was no contest. But the mystique of the too-quiet room, if construed by outsiders ...

Orfield Labs' founder, Steven Orfield, said: “When it’s quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.” Orfield ...

Inside the quiet room, background noise is so low that ... Elsewhere in the United States, the creator of Orfield Labs, a similar institution, which held the record prior to Microsoft, reports ...

There are plenty of quiet, off-the-beaten-path places ... More information on the room can be found on the Orfield Labs website. Visitors can make a reservation via email. This Winter Festival ...