Re: Who's Loudest

[amck@eden.com (Alan McKendree)]

At 21:53 7/16/97, The Who Mailing List Digest wrote:
>Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:43:49 -0500
>From: Rich Bogovich <bogie@itis.com>
>Subject: Who's Loudest
>
>"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.

Alan

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