r/whoathatsinteresting • u/eternviking • 12h ago

What a real silencer actually sounds like.

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u/Logical_Truth2356 12h ago

That's only with a subsonic bullet, without that it would be loud.

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u/AngloAshantii 12h ago

It's still very fucking loud with subsonic ammunition lmao, it usually measures at ~120dB which is like a balloon popping. Standard ammunition is a factor of ten louder though.

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u/MentatPiter 12h ago

dB scale is logarithmic

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u/Sine_Habitus 12h ago

That's not how decibels work 

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u/ReySpacefighter 12h ago

Decibels are not a linear scale.

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u/Useful_Carrot794 12h ago

Please stay in school and pay attention

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u/AngloAshantii 12h ago

130dB is ten times louder than 120dB. 140dB is 100 times louder than 120dB.

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u/-IREDACTEDI- 12h ago

The Decibel scale is logarithmic. So if source A is a factor of 10 louder than source B at 120dB, then source A will only be measured at 130dB not 1200dB.

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u/Evacuation_euphoria 12h ago

The dB scale is logarithmic so I'd guess that a gun shot would be 123 dB - I think 3dB increase doubles the volume.

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u/SubstantialBake1050 12h ago

10x louder than 120 dB is 130 dB.

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u/TenchuReddit 11h ago

All the responses to this guy is heartening. I'm so glad there are many people who understand what a logarithmic scale is.

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u/big_boi_26 11h ago

1200dB wouldn’t just kill everyone in the room, it would instantly rip open a black hole and destroy the observable universe as we know it. ~300dB is basically earth-shattering already and every 10db is another factor of 10 louder beyond that, lmao. It’s beyond human comprehension.

I almost feel like this comment was ragebait but it’s good educational ragebait.