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Kool Musick wrote:

>It's also partly a 'Europe versus USA' thing! The VU 'standard' was cobbled
>together by Bell Labs, CBS and NBC back in the late 30's or early 40's.
>They optimized it for radio broadcasting primarily, but for all sound
>      recording in general.


To which res0934j <res0934j@...> responded:

>I don't think those Bell labs scientists would have liked the way
>you describe their pioneering efforts,
Hmmmm .... maybe ... then again maybe not.

>by the way those labs were
>an international bunch of scientists cobbling stuff together as
>the first in the world at that time. PPM just like PAL came later
>and was in part build on the lessons learned from Bell..

To be honest, I was going for the (typically British) humorous and ironic 
approach. I was simply trying to make what I was writing a tad more 
interesting seeing as how what I mostly write is so very dull and tedious.

I have EVERY respect for those guys because, as you said, they were doing 
things that we now take totally for granted as obvious when when they were 
doing it it was not at all obvious. I never in the world meant to imply the 
slightest bit of disrespect to the Bell engineers, who also gave us the 
beginning of information theory, and apologise to them if that's how it 
came off. To be honest, it never once occurred to me that what I had said 
could have been interpreted in the way you have suggested.

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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