las wrote:
>
> It is easy for someone who grew up using Hz to be comfortable with the
> term and accept it. But what if you spent your youth drooling over
> Fisher stereo components (Marantz too). These were the kings about 38
> years ago when I was a kid.
??? I grew up with Hz as the standard unit for frequency and have lived
in America all my life. I have never heard of a different term.
> Everything was about cps. It's like the people in Florida. The federal
> government decided to rename Cape Canaveral (sp?) Cape Kennedy without
> ever consulting with them. For years the name on a map depended where
> the map came from.
CPS? I've never heard of CPS referring to anything other than
Characters Per Second. Back in the "old days" of telecom, the comm
software always used CPS for download speed. CPS was roughly 10 baud.
> That's the way it is for me and cps.
Maybe so, but Hz makes more sense. Get on any audio newsgroup and you
will see Hz is pretty much the norm. When I was a kid in high school,
kids would talk about the biggest, loudest subwoofers for cars "these
Kicker 15's are flat down to 20Hz". When talking subwoofer cutoff
points with my car audio buddies, we'd talk about setting the cutoff
between "80Hz and 120Hz". Or tweeters that reproduce up to "20kHz".
Maybe it's because I'm quite a bit younger, but to me, Hz makes sense,
CPS describes download speeds (although now everyone uses kbytes/sec or
even mbits/sec).
Hz as a unit is a good thing. FWIW, I wish the US would switch to
metric as well. Even for me, that would be an adjustment, but I would
see it as a welcome change and I'd be happy to adapt. The English units
of measurement are archaic and primitive. I wish we could abolish
Standard Time as well, and leave the clock Daylight Time all year round
(like they already have in parts of Indiana). IMO, all a politician has
to say is he supports these 2 things and I will vote for him, even if I
disagree with him on every other issue. The English units and biannual
time change are two of my biggest pet peeves.
Shawn
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