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AcoustiPic: noise reducing artwork
The frustration of not being able to hear clearly when in offices, restaurants, cafés, bars and homes, is generally NOT because your ears are malfunctioning. To the contrary, what you will often be experiencing are unwanted levels of ‘reverb’eration (echo) from sound bouncing off hard surfaces such as floors, ceilings, walls, doors, windows, furniture, etc.
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Sound reaches our ears in 3 phases:
i Direct Sound (the good stuff)
ii Early Reflections (we can cope)
iii Reverb (ugh, the unwanted echos)
As we try to talk louder over the noise, or we turn the TV / radio up, we are not fixing the problem - we are making it worse by generating even more reverb.
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