I suspect it’s something to do with sounds waves so have flaired as physics, but not sure?
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Humans can’t detect small variations in some forms of energy, and instead we interpret these things differently than physics would. Sound is one of these. Instead of hearing a soundwave with twice as much energy as twice as loud, we hear it something like .3 (the result of log10(2)) times as loud (the actual value may be from a different log base in practice, but the scale is similar enough). This is far more useful to us, because now we can hear small sounds (like an animal walking in a forest) while not instantly being deafened by loud sounds (like an animal roaring to scare away predators).
There is also a potential of the energy being less based on distance (sound becomes less energetic at a cube rate of distance from the source), but that is the lesser influence in a single venue. It is also possible to have constructive/destructive soundwaves, but the chaos of a choir arrangement is not precise enough to cancel out the energy involved at any real rate in either direction; that is something more often seen with precisely placed and timed electronic systems.
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