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echo: barktopus
to: Paul Ranson
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2003-07-03 16:46:12
subject: Re: Fun with sound & cars

From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> You have to double amplifier power to produce a 3dB increase in SPL, and 3dB
> is about the smallest increment that can be discriminated by humans, on
> music at least. The 10dB comes from 'doubling perceived' SPL.
>
> All nonsense. Are they completely mad?
>

Hey a bloke from school called noble wanted to go faster than the speed of
sound in a car..(big thing with jet engines I seem to remember)...he is mad
too...? Another called mallory wanted to climb everest...it's all the same
part of the human spirit I reckon.

adam

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