[Tade0]

Thing is, I couldn't hear anything at all from the turbine and the only noise I could pick up was the road.

At approx 256m attenuation is 21dB. Road noise reaches 85dB, which means I was hearing it at 64dB at most.

I should have heard something, anything from the turbine, yet I didn't.

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Yeah, I guess modern turbines are better than the one they put next to us. We used to have complete silence (no roads nearby), but after installing it the silence was gone. Not sure what else to tell you, I'm sure we wouldn't have noticed it if we already were used to road rumble, but we weren't, guess that's why it was so noticeable.

The environment and how long time your ears been in it, matters a lot for how loud or not we perceive noise, I can imagine most modern ears basically tune out the traffic rumble you hear almost everywhere.