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by gumby 768 days ago
> Much more significant is the 12 dB reduction in the "shrill and annoying" frequency range.

Those higher frequencies travel farther than the lower frequencies, so cutting them has a bigger perceived effect (and this is all about perceived effect, I believe, not the health effects of the operator).

Just agreeing with you that acoustics is complicated and non unidimensional.