What are LAeq and LAFmax?
The graph below indicates how this works. In this example, the input signal suddenly increases from 50 dB to 80 dB, stays there for 6 seconds, then disappears just as suddenly. An LAF measurement (green line) will take approximately 0.6 seconds (attack time) to reach 80 dB and just under 1 second (decay time) to drop back down to 50 dB.