- 1. db Level Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Ourand" <racenumbers@cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:20:02 -0700
- If a sound is 7db over "stock" is that a significant increase? This relates to interior muffler noise or resonance. Jim Ourand Pro Image Racing Identification Serving Racers and Autocrossers Since 19
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- 2. Re: db Level Question (score: 1)
- Author: Steven Fooshee <sfooshee@clubrx.org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:27:15 -0500
- 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
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- 3. Re: db Level Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Jay Mitchell" <jemitchell@compuserve.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:21:47 -0500
- Jim Ourand queried: Umm, yep. A 3 dB increase represents a doubling of the acoustic power radiated by the source. A 10 dB increase is generally characterized as "twice as loud," based on subjective s
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- 4. Re: db Level Question (score: 1)
- Author: GSMnow@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 20:50:39 EDT
- << If a sound is 7db over "stock" is that a significant increase? This relates to interior muffler noise or resonance. >> The other responses were technically correct, but there is one big thing that
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