• herrvogel@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Many leaf blowers are powered by angry little single cylinder 2-stroke gas engines. Those obscenely loud and annoying machines are carefully engineered to emit sounds that are perfectly within the most intolerable frequency ranges of the human hearing spectrum.

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      9 days ago

      People who live in the suburbs live in very quiet environments. I live next to a busy street and personally I would like to the inventor of the subwoofer eliminated.