In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] m>, "Baragwanath, Chris (TSG)" writes:
>Yes, the 440Hz is primarily a reference for tuning musical instruments >or calibrating tuners (i.e. PC sound cad based). In doing a little >"market research" as to the free frequency service, this freq. was >preferred to the normal 500Hz or 600Hz and still just within analog >telephone bandwidth. Both analog and digital phone technology may transpose frequencies up to 7 Hz in either directions. It doesnt' happen as much as it did back on old carrier-frequency transmission systems, but there can still be musically significant frequency shifts. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
