On 07/23/2010 10:23 PM, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 06:42:11PM +0200, lieven moors wrote: > > >> On 07/23/2010 06:29 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> >> >>> Transporting this to the audio domain, given two similar >>> sounds A and B with a B having a higher level than A, you >>> could adjust a third one X so it appears to be 'halfway' >>> between A and B. If you do this with A much smaller than >>> B, would you expect X to be close to 'half a loud as B' ? >>> >>> >>> >> If A would be very close to silence, yes. >> > I'd be *very* surprised if that would turn out to be true. > > I bet that if B is A + 40 dB, X would turn out to be > close to A + 20 dB. And if B is A + 60 dB, X will be > close to A + 30 dB. In both cases A is very small > conpared to B (at most 1/10000 in power). > > Ciao, > > Let's put it differently. If you only had sound B, and you were asked to position a similar sound X halfway between total silence, and the level of sound B, wouldn't that be the same as asking that sound X has half the loudness of sound B, or as asking that sound B has double the loudness of sound X?
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