This is not as simple as it "sounds." Human hearing is not uniform over all pitches. There is a mid-range, between 20Hz and 20000 Hz we hear best. Higher and lower sounds are "invisible" to us. However, a decibel meter measures all sounds, equally, even the ones we can't hear. There is a process called "folding," that allows advertisers to remove all the low and high sounds we can't hear, while accenting the mid-range sounds we hear best. The decibel meter would not detect this change, but it will sound much louder to us humans. You would need a special device that "hears" like a human, if you want to measure what we consider to be loudness. Since all humans are different, this will be no easy task.
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This is not as simple as it "sounds." Human hearing is not uniform over all pitches. There is a mid-range, between 20Hz and 20000 Hz we hear best. Higher and lower sounds are "invisible" to us.
However, a decibel meter measures all sounds, equally, even the ones we can't hear.
There is a process called "folding," that allows advertisers to remove all the low and high sounds we can't hear, while accenting the mid-range sounds we hear best. The decibel meter would not detect this change, but it will sound much louder to us humans.
You would need a special device that "hears" like a human, if you want to measure what we consider to be loudness. Since all humans are different, this will be no easy task.