Given its appearance in one form or another in all but the cheapest audio gear produced in the last 70 years or so, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the ubiquitous VU meter is just one of those ...

Weston type 30, model 862 vu indicator with ‘B’ scale on RCA OP-6 portable amplifier. A Daven resistor network reduced the output from +11 dBm to telco-required +8 for 3 dB line isolation, sent the ...

In almost every measurable way, a lossless digital audio file is superior to any analog media. This doesn’t mean that analog audio isn’t valuable though; plenty of people appreciate the compression, ...

An analog VU (volume unit) meter is a splendid moving-coil measuring instrument. It is a passive electromechanical device displaying a representation of the signal level in an audio equipment. Even ...

Digital and analog worlds continue to collide as Cambridge Audio announced that it has extended the retro-cool digital VU meter update that its Evo streaming amplifiers are getting today to its ...

Once a mainstay of every station, the reel-to-reel recorder is now a mystery to some people. While most radio stations are fully digital now, there are still a few limited (often forgotten) parts of ...

The circuit was conventionally designed with eight LED audio level meter made out of two low power quad op-amps which utilizes LM324. Volume Unit – an entity equal to a decibel for expressing the ...

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