Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners M80's on the way, need advice...please

My earlier post lost the insight I added:
The thing most people don't think of when talking about doubling the volume is that dbs are not a linear scale. 75 is not very loud, double that and you have no more hearing. Adding 10 db is a huge increase - do 90 to 100 at home see the difference. That is why I think more power adds more sound than straight math implies – you don’t need to up the db scale much to notice a difference – about 1db as the above article mentions. Perhaps that external amp adds 50 clean watts over a clean 100 watt AVR. That might mean getting a clean 105 db instead of a clean 99 db. You will notice that, and so will your neighbors. (Now correct me based on the math…I love that part.)