Theohazard
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No. That's not what I said at all. This also shows your lack of silencer experience. Notice I said that it might sound louder to the shooter. Silencers are measured in several different ways. For example, both the AAC M4-2000 and its little brother, the Mini-4, are almost exactly the same volume when tested at the shooter's ear. But the Mini-4 is much louder when measured at the muzzle.RX-79G said:This is you saying it is going to be louder than unsuppressed.Theohazard said:As for suppressing a revolver, it might make a little bit of a difference in the overall sound, but probably not much; too much gas escapes from the cylinder/barrel gap. In addition, traditional silencer designs produce back-pressure, so I would think it might actually sound louder to the shooter because of the back-pressure pushing more gas back through the cylinder/barrel gap.
So if you re-read that quote, you can see I acknowledged that it would make some difference in the overall sound, but I guessed that the extra back-pressure through the cylinder gap might actually make it seem louder to the shooter. And notice that I in no way presented this as fact, it's simply an educated guess.