| ▲ | rusk 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
But the base value is well defined, qualitatively (“a quiet room”), which is fine for what we are talking about which is “experienced loudness”. Once you go past log(3) it really doesn’t matter what the noise was at log(0). | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | sanderjd 2 days ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I'm sorry, but did you read the article? This is not the complaint. If decibels were used only to measure sound relative to "experienced loudness" there would be no complaint. The complaint is that it is used in many other ways, often without distinguishing what the base unit is. | |||||||||||||||||
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