[BC] Weston VU Meters -

[Milton R. Holladay Jr.]

It's all covered in the paper by Bell Labs, CBS, & ABC, ~1938; and telco
loop equalization is, as well...........
M

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Barry enquired:

>Now, the next question is "where did the term VU come from?"

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That's an easy one, it's short for Volume Units.  I would suspect that
somebody at Western Electric thought it up in the `30's.





Glen Kippel
KHCS
Palm Desert, CA