By Eggs6131 - 15/10/2013 13:09 - United Kingdom - Nottingham

Today, I found out that my brother is adamant that if he records silence, then listens to said silence at full volume, it'll improve the headphones' noise-blocking abilities. I live with a complete idiot. FML
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For all the people who don't get it, my brother recorded about a minute's worth of silence on his little MP3 player, so he could listen to said recording at full volume. He thought if he listened to this recording of nothingness on a loop at full volume, it would make his earphones act like earplugs, cancelling out any noise made. #8, still laughing at that "I'm sorry? I can't hear you for all this silence blasting in my ears". #22, he's fifteen :

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BntyHntrSeattle 30

Tell him if he talks with them on, his mom can't hear him. That should be fun to watch.

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EvilLittleMan 23

As Anthrax would say, Keep it in the Family !

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Kage01 4

If the noise blocking works with microphones, just having them on will block some sound. Even better if they are of the closed variety.

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williabnz 2

That actually would help break in a top end set of headphones but only in terms of speaker performance. It wouldn't do anything for the noise cancellation feature (assuming these headphones had noise cancellation) and he shouldn't be listening to them while they're playing white noise, just playing the white noise through the headphones on their own. He's probably just confused on these points :-)

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Branlamb 14

That might be just crazy enough o work....

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qwapteam 8

Till he heard a ghost in the silence

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ccubsfan94 1

if he records the silence then plays it back with inversed waveforms. the sounds should cancel out. but the only issue is the prerecorded sound may have inconsistencies with the current sound

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FRUITFUCKED 9

Wow... Just wow.

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frankiemz 10

Your brother is a genius.!! I still can't stop laughing. Haha

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See_Be_Feel 13

Just agree and later when he's listening to silence(rolling my eyes) turn the tv up as loud as you can and say i thought you couldn't hear me when he comes to complain.

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