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DBm Scale

A common dB scale used in audio recording is the dBm scale in which the reference power is taken to be a milliwatt (1 mW) dissipated by a 600 Ohm resistor. (See §F.3 for a primer on resistors, voltage, current, and power.) The signal power is typically averaged over some time period. In audio equipment, exponentially weighted averaging is typically carried out using a one-pole filter having a time-constant near 65.14 ms, which yields a $ t_{40}$ (time to reach 99% of the exponential target value) near 300 ms [11].


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``Mathematics of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT), with Audio Applications --- Second Edition'', by Julius O. Smith III, W3K Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-9745607-4-8
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