actually loading coils were to reduce overall  loss
by helping to cancel the line capacity
before amplifiers 1000 cycles was the frequency passed with 
best loss Characteristics,,,, the phones were designed to emphasise that
frequency
"whats that you say "
making phone calls werent for sissies

Bob K3DJC

On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:52:13 -0400 "George Danner"
<[email protected]> writes:
> One of the things that Bell Labs found in adding loading coils to 
> phone 
> lines (to reduce the high frequencies) was that in an audio system 
> if you 
> reduce the high frequencies then you needed to also reduce the low 
> frequencies to keep the intelligibility constant.
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