Aftermarket Horns on Amazon are Getting Out of Hand
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Published 2022-09-16
Ballin' on a budget horn: amzn.to/3qEKa0r Ballin' without a budget: amzn.to/3Dpq6GX Hold onto your hats, because if you felt the lumen advertising on Amazon was creative writing, the unregulated world of aftermarket truck horns and their decibel ratings is so out of tune with reality our monkey brains can't even fathom the scale. So we take a look at those ratings vs reality with a quick history lesson on the loudest recorded sound in history and a dip into logarithmic functions just so you can tell your family you learned something today, even if accidentally by watching some honk honks.
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All Comments (21)
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The sequel - LASERS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH3yMeA7HxQ We measured at 2m (not 1m) because thats what the horn specs sheets say! The bomb correction should say 10,000X the Nagasaki FatMan explosion. Bonkers. Also the % greater than Hella can be simplified and corrected as (from top to bottom): 1.15X, 1.19X, 1.72X, 2.29X, 2.57X & 1.46X
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I can’t believe that one horn didn’t actually produce 600dB. I thought for sure that product was capable of obliterating the entire solar system.
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Props to the guy that recorded the sound of the Krakatoa eruption from 2 metres away.
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The transition from the volcano story to the amazon horn was pure comedy gold
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Glad someone finally said this. I've been leaving the following reviews on several Amazon horns: 109db - chainsaw operation 130db - painful to most humans 150db - can break human eardrums 172db - Krakatoa explosion at 100 miles away 175db - one ton of TNT at 250ft 194db - limit of what we can scientifically call "sound" before it just becomes a pressure wave. ... 300db - these horns apparently
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I noticed this same thing on wish a couple years ago. Something like 7-8000 decibel horn for your truck. I did a lot of research and concluded that obliteration of every atom in the universe would only cost about $30(S&H not included) 😂 Glad someone turned this into a video, you killed it
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Not gonna lie I thought I was watching a history video and snapped back to reality with the 600db claim 😂
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This was UNREASONABLY funny and entertaining for what it was. My wife is not a technical person, would have never clicked on this video, and was dying of laughter just overhearing the video. Well done. 10/10
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I love that based on the seller's descriptions you're actually testing doomsday weapons. "According to the seller this should wipe out my entire city for 28 dollars, let's test it out."
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I can only imagine what your neighbors thought when all of them went off at once. Sounded like a comically large crash involving several jingle trucks lol.
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I can't believe you were so brave as to risk your life by testing the 600dB horn. My thoughts and prayers are with you 🙏😂
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I just love the one time in Teen Titans comics when Cyborg used a million decibells of white noise at the enemy. That is like 10^100000 universes of energy lmao.
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The logarithmic nature of the decibel scale has probably caused more public confusion that almost any other unit we regularly use lol
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Great video! Kinda bummed that none of these horns ended all life on earth, reversed time, and opened a wormhole to an alternate reality, but it was fun all the same.
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I'm going to sue Vovov demanding because their horn was 1900 trillion billion times quieter than they advertised!
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There's two decibel scales! Your calculator at 4:13 uses a scale of 20 decibels = 10x, and your calculator at 5:36 uses a scale of 10 decibels = 10x -- this is why the second calculator shows about half as much increase as the actual measured amount. (109 is right between 106 and 112!) Your device definitinely measures on a 20db scale according to its results.
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13:00 that may actually be a record holder for the most quantitatively over-advertised item on amazon
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Thank you for mentioning that decibels are logarithmic, seeing the numbers claimed made me laugh. Seriously, those things would probably create a pressure wave big enough to destroy the planet at the advertised volumes
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I laughed so hard at the 600db comparison with Krakatoa that was amazing
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I love the context you provide for decibals. 300db is just a number without the example
