Electric leaf blowers are already far quieter than their gas-powered peers, but they still aren’t the kind of thing you’d like to hear first-thing on a Saturday morning. Looking to impr…
  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    49·
    6 months ago

    No. It means the sound energy is dropped by half. Our audio perception is also logarithmic however. It’s why we use db.

    • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      6 months ago

      Almost. a 10db change is a 10x difference in power and roughly 2x difference in perceived loudness