dB(A) | Overall Level | Community Noise Levels (Outdoors) | Home and Industry Noise Levels | Subjective Loudness (Relative to 70 dB) |
---|---|---|---|---|
120 | Uncomfortably Loud | Military jet aircraft take-off from aircraft carrier with afterburner at 50 ft . . . 130 dB | Oxygen Torch . . . 121 dB | 32 times as loud |
110 | Turbo-fan aircraft at takeoff power at 200 ft . . . 118 dB | Riveting machine . . . 110 dB
Rock band . . . 108 - 114 dB |
16 times as loud | |
100 | Very loud | Boeing 707 or DC-8 aircraft at one nautical mile (6080 ft) before landing
. . . 106 dB
Jet flyover at 1000 feet . . . 103 dB Bell J-2A helicopter at 100 ft . . . 100 dB |
8 times as loud | |
90 | Boeing 737 or DC-9 aircraft at one
nautical mile (6080 ft) before landing . . . 97 dB
Power mower . . . 96 dB Motorcycle at 25 ft . . . 90 dB |
Newspaper press . . . 97 dB | 4 times as loud | |
80 | Car wash at 20 ft . . . 89 dB
Propeller plane flyover at 1000 ft . . . 88 dB Diesel truck 40 mph at 50 ft . . . 84 dB Diesel train 45 mph at 100 ft . . . 83 dB |
Food blender . . . 88 dB
Milling machine . . . 85 dB Garbage disposal . . . 80 dB |
2 times as loud | |
70 | Moderately loud | High urban ambient sound . . . 80 dB
Passenger car 65 mph at 25 ft . . . 77 dB Freeway at 50 ft from pavement edge 10 a.m. . . . 76 dB |
Living room music . . . 76 dB
Radio or TV-audio. vacuum cleaner . . . 70 dB |
70 dB(A) |
60 | Air conditioning unit at 100 ft . . . 60 dB | Cash register at 10 ft . . . 65-70 dB
Electric typewriter at 10 ft . . . 64 dB Dishwasher (Rinse) at 10 ft . . . 60 dB Conversation . . . 60 dB |
1/2 as loud | |
50 | Quiet | Large transformers at 100 ft . . . 50 dB | 1/4 as loud | |
40 | Bird calls . . . 44 dB
Lowest limit of urban ambient sound . . . 40 dB |
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10 | Just audible | |||
0 | Threshold of Hearing | |||
yours is much better, couldn't find anything like that
[edit] wtf? her 'noise' was somewhere between 'raindrops' and 'normal converstaion' - hardly orgasmic
But you come from Cornwall where grunts and groans count as pillow talk. Along with "baaaaa", of course.
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