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Blowers and weed wackers shift from throttled to idle all over the place and are a lot harder to tune out than mowers at least for me. Road noise likewise is pr
by briankelly 6y ago
Blowers and weed wackers shift from throttled to idle all over the place and are a lot harder to tune out than mowers at least for me. Road noise likewise is pretty background and largely from tires, not engines, anyway, unless you have a lot of commercial trucks, bikes, or tuners around.
- clairity 6y agounfortunately it’s a lot of the latter in my case. however, i’d point out that lifting the noise floor, as road noise does, contributes to lifetime hearing loss, as we make everything else louder (it also negatively affects attention, concentration, stress and anxiety in subtle but meaningful ways). it’s the kind of long, low externalized cost that our short-term-oriented brains tend to evaluate and address poorly.