post #16 of 16
8/30/05 at 7:23pm
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Originally Posted by hugz
isn't 3 decibels twice the volume, on account of decibels being an exponential measurment?

Thus, double the power = extra 3db = double the volume?
Yes and no. It is twice as loud in the sense of twice as much energy. Your perception of sound energy, however, is logarithmic so 3dB does not sound twice as loud. It sounds slightly louder. This is the point of using a logarithmic scale.
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