A speaker so loud it can kill you


CNN reporting on a speaker so loud it could kill you!

CNN|Added on February 10, 2014 Sound waves from the ESA's Large European Acoustic Facility reach levels so high, they could shake your brain loose.

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tbromgard

Showing 1 response by joeylawn36111

Loudest ever was the giant steel and concrete horn used by NASA to (I guess) simulate what effects the sound of a huge rocket (like the Saturn V) would have on the surrounding area.

It was made at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL.

The max output SPL was a lethal 210 decibels.

From the Guiness Book of Records:

"The loudest noise created in a laboratory is 210 db or 400,000 acoustic watts reported by NASA from a 48 ft steel and concrete horn at Huntsville, Alabama in October 1965."