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Default Speakers and wire length

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 07:40:28 -0700, "William Sommerwerck"
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It was /never/ defined that way.

The bel is the logarithm (to the base 10) of a power ratio.
Decibels are ten times that.


Errm, 1/10_th surely.