Electric leaf blowers are already far quieter than their gas-powered peers, but they still aren’t the kind of thing you’d like to hear first-thing on a Saturday morning. Looking to impr…
  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    9 months ago

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

    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      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?