Does the proximity of a barrier affect the volume of a sound at a distance from the source?

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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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As a person living in your hypothetical situation. It doesn’t matter, they will up the volume until you are awake and coming too them. Doors open or closed, they be loud.

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