Everything You Need to Know about Tap Testing

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If you’ve ever lived in an apartment, then you know that sometimes you can hear sound from the upstairs neighbors: kid feet pounding on your ceiling as they run back and forth, furniture legs scraping against the floor overhead, or boots pacing back and forth late into the night. Much of the sound that passes between floors in a building is impact noise, that is, noise caused by the impact of an object against the floor or ceiling.

To characterize and ...

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What do STC ratings mean?

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Sound Transmission Class is derived from other sound metrics like NIC and NIIC. You can read more about NIC and NNIC here. 

The NIC and NNIC don’t attempt to describe how sound gets from one room to another. Does the sound go through cracks or around corners (called flanking paths) or does it go straight through walls or other partitions (called direct transmission)?  By taking care to block flanking paths, the noise reduction between two rooms can reasonably be assumed ...

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Fast, Slow, and Impulse Time Weighting: What’s the difference?

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When it comes to sound level measurements, there are three types of time weighting that you see: Slow, Fast, and Impulse. In this article, we’ll talk about the difference between these ways of weighting and where they came from.

The terms slow and fast weighting go back to the days of analog sound level meters. Analog meters had a needle that would point to numbers on a scale. With differences in manufacturing and design, some of these needles reacted faster than ...

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