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Archive of entries posted on February 2010

Decibel Flavors Part 1 – L Values

Posted by Joshua Leasure on 3 February 2010, 9:45 pm

“Decibel,” by itself, is not a unit of loudness. The type of decibels needs to defined. This is the first of a two articles explaining what “decibels” means. It covers Leq, Lmax, Lmin, and statistical Ln values.

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