Hi,
So I downloaded the NIOSH sound measure app on my iPhone. I was playing around with it and my colleague coughed. The Lmax said it was 86 dB while the LCpeak said it was 115 dB. Is that number real? 115 dB sound very loud for a cough! I tried to read up on the difference between these values and read something about square roots etc. but I didn’t understand any of it. So can somebody please ELI5?
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I just had a little accident while rearanging the my fridge freezer a drawer fell about 20 cm to the floor. This made a huge bang. Since I have tinnitus I am quite carefull about safe sound exposure. I put on ear protection and recreated the event while measuring with the app. The result was an Lmax of 107 dB, and LCpeak of 125.2 dB. Which one of these values would be correct to use in regards to possible ear damage and noise exposure limits?
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