Sone 134

Many product listings, especially for bathroom exhaust fans, use sones (e.g., "0.3 sones" for ultra-quiet fans). However, industrial fans, leaf blowers, and some European appliances might list "134 sones" as a maximum rating. The confusion arises because:

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The scale is linear. If you double the sone value, you double the perceived loudness. This linearity makes sones far more intuitive for non-experts than the logarithmic decibel scale. Many product listings, especially for bathroom exhaust fans,