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Wayne Robson
 
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Default Can anyone give me the equation to convert watts to Decibels?


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No, because there isn't one. Watts is power, decibels is sound intensity.
While related, they are not the same thing: A higher wattage speaker will be
louder, but distance from the speaker matters, too.

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from some web site I found:

"Another rule of thumb that is useful to remember is that 10 dB is a power
ratio of 10. Any time a power is increased tenfold, it is increased by 10 dB;
thus, a 200W power amplifier will put out 10 dB more electrical power than a
20W amplifier, and its sound power output will also increase by 10 dB."
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But, it still can't say what the decibel level is in absolute terms.....

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from some web site I found:

"Another rule of thumb that is useful to remember is that 10 dB is a power
ratio of 10. Any time a power is increased tenfold, it is increased by 10
dB;
thus, a 200W power amplifier will put out 10 dB more electrical power than
a
20W amplifier, and its sound power output will also increase by 10 dB."



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