New research has discovered that ‘impact sounds’ really are a pain.
If you’ve been cursed with a nocturnal upstairs neighbour who loves to clatter around their flat in the dead of night, you might feel vindicated by new research that has discovered that ‘impact sounds’ really are a pain.
It’s 3am and you’re wide awake. The cause? Your upstairs neighbours and their inexplicable fondness for stomping around their living room in the small hours.or a terraced house, you’ll know that the most annoying neighbours aren’t necessarily the ones who like to blast music on a Saturday night .
Impact sounds are marked by the speed with which they arrive and then decay . They aren’t continuous, like the thud of a bass line or the buzz of a conversation: they thud, bang, crash and clang quickly and erratically.Noise from above: A summary of studies regarding the perceived annoyance due to impact sounds
, researcher Markus Müller-Trapet explains how he and a team of researchers embarked on a study of just how irritating these sounds can be.and had to listen to various recordings of different sounds: some using different playback techniques, others using virtual reality. Continuous noises like chatter or music were found to be less annoying, while the impact sounds, which included recordings of people walking barefoot and objects falling on the floor, were the most frustrating.The surprisingly scientific reason why Bear Grylls wants you to start calling your alarm clock an “opportunity clock”
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