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Exactly. There's no way +3dB is perceptibly twice as loud. That's easy to test for yourself. +10dB is roughly twice as loud.


+10dB is twice of something: it is an increase in loudness which is twice compared to a +5 dB increase.

If +10dB is absolutely twice as loud, it means that 110 dB is 32 times as loud as 60 dB. We are then essentially denying that perception of loudness is logarithmic!


The BBC used to teach +6dB for twice as loud for music sources, but they've always been a bit conservative.




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