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  blablabla23 on 21/10/2016 - 13:14

  Premium Features with Online Backup $14.49

  lol

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    Lizard Spock on 21/10/2016 - 13:16

    Ah, I c. Lol indeed

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    fruit on 21/10/2016 - 14:15

    LOL

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  NWLikeShopping on 21/10/2016 - 13:15

  +2

  I'll have to check out the sound meter app to see if it approximates either the (quite pricey) Faber Accoustical app or my Type 2 sound level meter, as a cheap alternative to those, to recommend to acquaintances running into noise issues.

  Word to the wise - it's difficult to get accurate sound measurements from an iPhone/iPad's internal mic, for various reasons including software changes that occur from iOS version to iOS version, as well as having to calibrate separately for the different characteristics of each iPhone/iPad device … that's likely one of the reasons they recommend that it's for private purposes only. It'll give you enough justification to say "I think this is a problem", but not to know for sure. What can help, if you're using one of these "private purposes only" phone apps to measure sound is to, independent of the noise you're trying to measure, and ideally in the same location in which you're trying to measure the noise, measure something else, like a popular model of Dyson vacuum cleaner. That way, you have two different measurements, including one (vacuum cleaner) with which many people are likely to be familiar. If you can say, "this other noise measures 20dBA louder than this vacuum cleaner sitting 3m away from my phone", it quantifies the problem better to people than does simply giving them a measurement from a sound metering app with which they're not familiar.

  Before anyone asks for an Android equivalent, I'll tell you that there is such variation in Android phone hardware and from Android software environment to Android software environment with varying tweaks for different hardware platforms, that an Android device is not the best device with which to try to measure sound.

  [Edit: Adding a note about documenting noise with an app. I recommend taking videos of your phone measuring the noises in real time, with both the noise you care about and your baseline noise like a vacuum cleaner running without that other noise. This was the technique I used to finally get action on a noise complaint that people played the deny-deny-deny game with me on, for months. ]

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    Lizard Spock on 21/10/2016 - 13:23

    Also curious, let us know how it compares to the Faber app and type 2 sound level meter

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      NWLikeShopping on 21/10/2016 - 13:25

      +1

      The Type 2 is an actual professional hardware device. I'll do this when I go home tonight, as I'm curious. (I've been telling people to spend the money on the Faber app, because I think it's got some good science and good devs behind it, but if something a fraction of the price works about as well….)

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  Kustard King on 22/10/2016 - 08:36

  The sound meter is not free anymore?

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    Lizard Spock on 22/10/2016 - 09:36

    Thanks. Updated the post