Talk:Sound dosimeter

The name 'sound dosimeter' or the English spelling 'Sound dosemeter' is not the correct name for the device traditionally called a 'noise dosimeter' and now formally called a PSEM. Even in the USA where acoustic terms are used rather less accurately, no serious worker in the field would call it a 'sound dosimeter'. Certainly no professional manufacturer has ever called it a 'sound dosimeter', but the logic behind the suggestion is clear as it is a variant of a sound level meter.

It measures NOISE, defined as unwanted sound and so to call it a sound dosimeter perhaps suggests it is used for sound recording etc.

The word noise dosemeter - or dosimeter are in several countries laws and international standards so to change 50 years of usage seems incorrect.

Given the history of acoustics, I cannot see why this change is suggested.

24malbec09 18:47, 4 September 2007 (UTC)