How much has loudness grown since the Sixties?

Loudness: "A widely used "rule of thumb" for the loudness of a particular sound is that the sound must be increased in intensity by a factor of ten for the sound to be perceived as twice as loud. A common way of stating it is that it takes 10 violins to sound twice as loud as one violin. Another way to state the rule is to say that the loudness doubles for every 10 phon increase in the sound loudness level. Although this rule is widely used, it must be emphasized that it is an approximate general statement based upon a great deal of investigation of average human hearing but it is not to be taken as a hard and fast rule."

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Decibel violence

Practiced in previews

At Loews Kips Bay

Leaves tender ears inert

Intrusive come-ons

For needlessly violent action films where

Loudness takes the place of  mind

Volume the place of thought

Clatter the place of subtlety

An aural bulldozer

Flattening human scale

Assaulting human imagination

We are well past acceptable degrees of

Tastelessness

This is a

A travesty

A sign of

Culture in free fall

Let us combat it

By saying NO to super action volume 

Ear splitting and injuriousDefeating normal speech
Softly but insistentlyIn writing and directlyCease meddling with our being
Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes