EN 62841-3-1 gives each saw two numbers
Festool, DEWALT and SawStop declare their table saws for Europe under EN 62841, the standard family for electric tools, whose part 3-1 covers transportable table saws. Milwaukee's EU page gives the same pair of figures without naming a standard.
| Term | What it describes | How this page uses it |
|---|
| LpA | Sound pressure at the operator's position, standing with both hands on the work | Ranks the seven saws |
| LwA | Sound power of the entire saw, what reaches everyone else in the house | Shown beside each LpA |
| K | The uncertainty the maker states | 3 dB for most saws here, 2 dB for one DEWALT |
Festool's 85.00 and 98.00 for the CSC SYS 50 come from one test, but pressure and power are different things, and what separates a table saw's two noise numbers is the reason they never share a ranking. SawStop also prints a C-weighted peak, LpCpeak, which the others do not, so it stays out of the comparison.
What is the quietest table saw?
The Festool CSC SYS 50, at 85.00 dB(A) at the ear and 98.00 sound power, the lowest of both kinds.
It is a different kind of saw from the rest. It fits in a Systainer, weighs 33 lbs, cuts 48 mm deep and rips 11 in, which is enough for trim, flooring and panel parts inside an occupied house. For breaking down panels without a table saw, fourteen declared handheld and track saws are ranked in our guide to circular and track saws.
Among full size jobsite saws, DEWALT's cordless DCS7485 leads with 86 dB(A) at the operator's position and 100 of sound power, within the uncertainty of the Festool at the ear. Its corded twin, the DWE7485, declares 91 and 108 at 115 V.
The ten inch DWE7491RS, through the DWE7492, declares 92.0 and 105.2. That puts it a decibel louder at the ear than the DWE7485 but three quieter in sound power.
The Milwaukee M18 sits with the corded DEWALTs at the ear
The M18 FTS210, twin of the US 2736-20, is listed on Milwaukee's European page at 92.37 dB(A) at the ear and 103.37 sound power, each with a K of 3. No standard is named.
At the ear that puts it among DEWALT's corded saws. Its sound power is lower than any corded saw here, though above the two quietest cordless saws.
How loud is a SawStop?
The Jobsite Saw Pro declares 95.4 dB at the ear and 108.4 sound power, and the Compact Table Saw 99.4 and 112.4, each with an uncertainty of 3 dB under EN 62841, in SawStop's EU manuals.
Both manuals print dB without the (A). An unweighted figure is a different quantity from an A-weighted one, so SawStop's saws are compared only with each other, and the Jobsite Saw Pro comes out quieter by 4 dB on both counts. SawStop's EU manual for its Professional Cabinet Saw prints no noise declaration that we could find, which leaves the cabinet saw unranked.
None of them could be tied to a current US saw. Bosch's US manual for the 4100XC-10 prints no noise figure, and no current European Bosch saw could be tied to it with confidence. The only Makita table saw on Makita's US site, the 2705X1, is marked discontinued. Metabo's US cordless sawing section lists no table saw, and its corded sawing section did not load.
Metabo HPT's US page for the C10RJS prints no figure. HiKOKI's European page for the C10RJWAZ prints a sound power of 107.8 dB but a sound pressure entry that reads "94.8.92 dB", which cannot be read as a single number, so it is not ranked. Festool's US table saw page lists only the CSC SYS 50.
How many dB is a table saw?
From 85 dB(A) to 99.4 dB at the operator's ear, across the seven declared saws here. That is more than fourteen decibels, far beyond the uncertainty, and the two brushless cordless saws at the top are a real step down from the corded saws, which start at 91.
Real noise also depends on the blade, the material and the feed rate, which a standard test holds fixed. Treat the figures as a way to compare saws, not a prediction of your shop.
If your cuts are mostly crosscuts and angles rather than rips, our miter saw guide compares the saw built for that job.
In a shop with ducted dust collection, the collector usually starts with the table saw. Our dust collector guide covers those machines and notes that no maker says what it had connected when it measured, so no rating tells you how a collector sounds with ducts attached and blast gates open.
