Re:Who's loudest

[Ian <istanley@quartz.nbnet.nb.ca>]

>Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 Alan McKendree wrote:
>Subject: Re: Who's Loudest
>
>> RE:
>>"The claim by the US group Manowar, a heavy metal rock band, to have reached
>>a reading of 160 dB in Oct 1984 is unsupportable."
>
>Nor would I think it _could_ be supported.  Apologies to those who know how
>decibels work, but for those who don't, it's a logarithmic scale, which
>means that every 10 decibels added means the sounds is 10 *times* louder.
>Thus 160 decibels would be 10*10*10*10 or 10,000 *times* louder than 120 db
>which was already a record.
>
>I doubt it.

 I do too.Then again,Manowar are an extremely loud group.Any band that
writes songs with titles like "Blow Your Speakers" and "All Men Play On 10"
would have to be!

                   Long Live Rock,

                        I.S.

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