[Acen]

Practically all of audio land is logarithmic.

The orders of magnitude in power/loudness is pretty astonishing.

When introducing decibels to new audio engineers, we generally introduce it as a 3db increase is a doubling in power, a 10db increase is a 10x increase in power.

It gets silly when you start talking sound pressure level, because how people perceive a 10x increase in the output power, is about a doubling of the perceived loudness.

[tverbeure]

Well, yes, of course it’s logarithmic.

The question was whether or not the audio displays have a correction to make pink noise render as a flat horizontal line, whereas general test and measurement spectrum analyzer would show a tilted line.