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60dB is quite tame, just measured my AC and it's 55dB. Try closing the window?
Decibels are a logarithmic scale. Each step is an increase by a power of ten.
So the difference between 55 and 60 is far larger than it it would initially seem
But we don't perceive a doubling as a doubling