In an effort to demonstrate their commitment to unrivaled research and silence their competitors — Microsoft has created the Quietest place on Earth at their headquarters in Redmond Washington, USA. The computer company has built an anechoic chamber in which highly sensitive tests reported an average background noise reading of an unimaginably quiet -20.35 dBA (decibels A-weighted).
LeSalle Munroe, Microsoft Senior Engineer, Surface Devices explains, “this chamber gives us the opportunity to look for those really small signals that can have an impact to the end user. We always want to have the best tools available for the job. And that’s what this is. It’s a great accomplishment”.
In other words, Microsoft did not build this record-setting chamber just to set a record. Actually, there was a meaningful purpose behind it — audio testing.
