Thread: Suppressor sound testing

Originally Posted by Marty Henry

The Decibel scale is not linear its logarithmic so 101 db is 10 times louder than 100db if my maths is right. So the unsupressed rifle is 130% louder. A pretty impressive sound reduction.

And Sound level reduces by -6bB every time the distance doubles, so reduction at point of firing pays dividends at distance.