Why does a phone’s volume need to be increased to ear-hurting levels for a person to be able to hear a podcast over washing dishes when hearing another person speak live over the same sound is fine?

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Why does a phone’s volume need to be increased to ear-hurting levels for a person to be able to hear a podcast over washing dishes when hearing another person speak live over the same sound is fine?

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Sound is a signal via the movement of air. Look at the amount of air that the speaker in you phone can move as opposed to the amount of air a human’s lungs would move to the same sound. The larger amount of air would help override the noise from the washing.

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