The change you experience in a sensation is related to how much you're already sensing that thing. This applies to hearing and vision and is known as Weber–Fechner law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weber%E2%80%93Fechner_law
What this means in practice is that human senses are a logarithm of the input. Because hearing is a logarithm of the input, we deal with the perception of sound in exponential quantities of sound.
What this means in practice is that human senses are a logarithm of the input. Because hearing is a logarithm of the input, we deal with the perception of sound in exponential quantities of sound.