A method of acoustically attenuating noises of structure-borne origin in an article of manufacture by installing a laminated window having a glass sheet and an intermediate film, where the film has a loss factor tan .delta. greater than 0.6 and a shear modulus G' smaller than 2.times.10.sup.7 N/m.sup.2 in a temperature range between 10 and 60.degree. C. and in a frequency range between 50 and 10,000 Hz.