• MentalEdgeEnglish
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    Why? dB is logarithmic so it’s difficult for people to picture how loud something is, if that’s the only number given.

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      And so are our ears. That’s why we use db. So 12db is not perceived by us to be 94% quieter.

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        So its 94% less sound because this seems sound calculated -12db in % with conventional formulas?

        How would we describe perceived sound exactly, not many people can imagine something when given a db value? Maybe we should?