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Are you saying novel mechanical engineering designs are impossible? That the mechanism of a leaf blower is so near perfection, that a well funded team of 4 mechanical engineering students could not, without VIOLATING THE LAWS OF PHYSICS, have simply found a better mechanism?
I agree with your "show me the numbers" critique, but I find your complete disregard of what may be a better answer without any data at all to be equally foolhardy.
He has a point though... OVERALL noise was only suppressed 2db. It's only 12db in a specific frequency. EVERY article has more or less ONLY stated the 12db value. It seems more and more these days that you just have to assume that the article headline is at best mostly false, or obscenely misleading.
2db overall... is kind of fucking pointless. I mean... as someone afflicted with hearing problems I know that every db matters. But all this hubbub for something that should just be found, then implemented without all this fanfare... the general public will not care about this, yet I've seen 3 articles on it for some reason.
And most normal people don't understand the logarithmic nature of the db scale anyway. Every 3 db is technically a doubling in power. But it takes 10db for our perception to halve/double.
Taking out the high-pitch whine will make them much more bearable. It's a student project, they did well. This isn't groundbreaking Noble-prize stuff, but it doesn't deserve all the hate it's getting here either.
Agreed. Being in the house and having the shrill component of the blower removed would greatly be appreciated.