Klarinet Archive - Posting 000701.txt from 1998/11

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: A few "cents" worth please - was
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 07:51:13 -0500

At 10:47 AM 11/18/98 +0900, Hiroshi Nagatsuma wrote:
>FYI:I read somewhere that human hearing is logarithmic not linear.
>
The decibel scale is logarithmic. Three decibels equals a doubling of
volume. One decibel is, if I recall correctly, theoretically the
approximate minimum volume change that can be differentiated reliably by
human hearing.

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