[ELI5] How does something reach negative decibels?

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Microsoft made a -23 decibel room, but how does that work exactly? Once something hits 0 decibels how exactly can we measure it getting more quiet than that?

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The decibel scale is logarithmic; 0dB is not zero sound, it is the sound level we define as reference. Positive dB means that the sound is a multiple of that reference, negative dB means it is a fraction of that reference.

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