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Default How do sound decibels add together?

On 3/09/2014 4:35 a.m., Tim Sprout wrote:


So...loudness is power based, logarithmic. A stadium of 50,000 cheering
people generates power, which increases the loudness, with some
attenuation depending on phase, and is not 50,000 X the loudness of 1
person cheering.


That one must be a really crap team !

geoff