Let’s say there’s a baby’s room at one end of the hall and the parents’ room at the other. Each room has a door, but in this scenario, only one door will be closed, and the other will be open.
If the baby starts crying, does it make any difference which door is closed, in terms of the parents being able to hear, or is the volume just the same in either case when it reaches the parents’ ears?
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Edit: To be super clear, this is hypothetical, and if I had a baby, I’d want to hear the crying if it was happening 🙂
I have a door at the bottom of a stairway that opens to a shared hall with my neighbor, and when she’s jingling her keys and unlocking her door, it sounds like she’s right in my apartment. So I was wondering how well she can hear me at that time. Sounds like, unless there’s something one-way about the acoustics in my stairwell, I should assume she can hear me at that time about as well as I can hear her.
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In a straight line it wouldn’t matter, but in a house it would be quieter to close the door closer to the baby if both doors are the same.
A noise has a starting volume. It gets weaker over time. Objects in the way will also make it weaker. Regardless of the positioning of the object, the noice still has to both travel a certain distance and pass through the object. So, it wouldn’t matter.
However, in a house, the sound will expand out and start to bounce off walls, cause echos , etc. It will have new paths through walls, door gaps, vents, an so on. The quietest solution, because you arent in a tunnel, would be to weaken it at the source instead of the end point.
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