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Message: <blockquote data-quote="T3mpest" data-source="post: 1817488" data-attributes="member: 560148"><p>Yeah, your on the right track.  Sound is essentially a measure of air pressure.  The given amount of atmospheric pressure that exists at sea level limits you to about 194 decibels.  If you have a sub that could technically create more pressure than that, it essentially runs out of air to increase the pressure with, pressure is force/area.  Technically, the DB scale can go higher.  You'd have to conver the amount of force given off by the vibrating object into a theoretical amount of pressure.  That's why Krakatoa is considered to have created a 310db shockwave, the rest was just excess force, but if their had been enough air, it could have happened.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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