At 03:42 PM 1/3/2001, Leaf wrote: >this less painful? I think the reduction in road >noise (I hear on average about 3 dB) will be well >worth the pain.
Rule of thumb -- pretty good one since it's actually how the Belltel engineers who invented the *bel* and decibel designed it -- one decibel is just detectable to a careful listener. Three decibels is easily noticed. Ten decibels (one bel) is double or half the perceived volume. david
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