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IIRC A 10 Db increase in SPL is perceived by most people as a doubling of "volume".

thr article mentions this too... its hard to get a feel for log scales lol.

Yeah, it's funny how humans don't really comprehend logarithmic or exponential growth, yet, the whole reason we use a log scale for stuff like sound pressure is that our nervous system has a logarithmic response curve.

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