Re: Re: [OM] OM clunks, clanks and doinks

[Winsor Crosby]

>  > Walt Wayman <hiwayman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  What can I say?  Facts is facts.
> >
> >  Screams of those who refuse to accept my incontrovertible and
> >  irrefutable findings and choose to imagine they hear things that
> >  they really don't: 110 dB!  :-)
> I think the differences we hear are probably due to the frequency 
> distribution of
> the sound rather than just the level.  By the way a 3db difference is quite
> significant in audible terms.
>
>
> Wayne Harridge
>
> http://members.optusnet.com.au/~w_harridge

Some of those old meter movement decibel meters were quite impervious 
to transient sounds, too.  The peak is gone before the meter can be 
driven up. They were really steady state devices.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California

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