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Re: db Level Question

To: Jim Ourand <racenumbers@cox.net>
Subject: Re: db Level Question
From: Steven Fooshee <sfooshee@clubrx.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:27:15 -0500
Jim Ourand wrote:
> 
> If a sound is 7db over "stock" is that a significant increase? This relates to
> interior muffler noise or resonance.
> 

Yeah, that's pretty substantial. DeciBels are on a logarithmic scale and
it's more work than I want to go through to define (and I'd need books
that aren't here :). Suffice to say, that if you had a 60 dB source and
added another 60 dB source to it (i.e. twice the noise), it'd be 63 dB
total. 
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