What do we gain from the most common unit of sound (Db) being non linear?
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Decibels (dB) are a unit of *relative intensity*, meaning how much louder/brighter/stronger one signal is compared to another.
But mostly what we gain from using dB is a relationship between power and intensity that is close to how humans perceive it. An increase in power by a factor of ten correlates to approximately doubling the perceived intensity/volume.
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