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jwalton | 1 month ago

If you’re 2x farther away, the intensity of the sound with be 1/4, because of the inverse square law, so logically your speaker would need to be 300% louder.

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sib|1 month ago

And, technically, if you are 2x farther away, you are 3x as far away, so the intensity would be 1/9.