In fact, Marca measured the whistles for the club captain at 110.6 decibels: louder, they said, than the cheer that greeted either goal.
With a roster bolstered by the acquisition of two experienced Argentines (at sub-DP prices) no one imagined that conventional wisdom about the club would be, 'Hey, it could have been worse.' Faith remains high, but the Timbers Army is running a few decibels lower while the club struggles to build momentum.
The noise went up several decibels when New York's police department's marching band played "Here Comes the Bride".
Spectators had to park a long way off and the sound level would not be allowed to exceed 40 decibels.
Others suspected that the booming decibels of the concert would endanger the hollow double dome of the Taj.
As a result, people tend to listen more intently and speak more forcefully.Add 60 decibels or more of background noise from a couple of large turbo-fan engines droning away outside and the air passenger behind you could soon be shouting loud enough for even the pilot to hear.
Your correspondent suspects the record companies have chosen deliberately to sacrifice some of the Compact Disc's delicious 90 decibels of dynamic range to make their music shout louder than ever over FM radio.
However many decibels Mr Hampton produced, however much excitement he generated, however much pandemonium he created on the dance floor, there was always in his music the delayed beat that underpins much of great jazz.It is especially distinctive in a number of records he made with Benny Goodman.
The decibels peaked in 2007 when Parliament voted to renew the ageing submarines.Reducing the size of the fleet by a quarter will not cut the bill by the same proportion.
It is a sort of mega-megaphone, able to blast sounds (such as crowd-dispersal instructions in Arabic) in a narrow beam and with great clarity at a deafening 150 decibels.
(A study from 2009 found that American-football crowds maintain a quiet hum of 75-80 duringls during "home plays", but blare at 110-115 decibels when a visiting team has the ball, impairing the quarterback's range of communication).
