Phew what a faffffffffffffff, all that work, effort, time, money this chap deserves a medal or two!
The benefit of age is one looses faculties, I will not go into too much detail here as the more mature gentlemen on this forum will have had the same experiences.
I have managed to get zero db reading with my sound proofing endeavours, its simple, effective and efficient, I just turn off the hearing aids, brilliant also stops the sound deafening screams from the Mrs when I am doing my Sebastian Loeb impersonations whilst on the way to Tesco.
Dream on fellas