How Does Sound Work?

[barry1010]

If I am listening to my music playing at 60 decibels on one radio and turn a second radio on 40 dB, is the music louder?

[Peter Pedant]

oh and a bel ( or 1/10 th of one - decibel) is not only logarithmic
but a ratio .. x/y - - and so is dimensionless

are you sure they dont wanna do vision and sight
I know a lot more about that

[PsalmEquipt]

The total sound level will be 73 decibels.

This is more of an engineering problem, not usually considered by music listeners unless designing a sound studio. Well, at least it's not, not an engineering problem. Since AI is now on the scene, I got this answer by asking Bard. https://g.co/bard/share/517852dd66b8

[douglas9401]

You'll have to type louder, somebody's got a radio blaring.

[gingejbee]

This isn't "how sound works"...this is "how sound measurement works".

[PsalmEquipt]

The total sound level is approximately 60.043 decibels

AI often sounds convincing while providing an inaccurate answer. I got this answer by asking Chat GPT. It arrived at the same formula as Bard
dBtotal = 10log(10^(60/10) + 10^(40/10))
but came out with a different end result to the calculation.
https://chat.openai.com/share/e1c844df-ac8d-4b74-a18d-b071523d8151