The circuit was designed to create a volume unit meter that would be used to measure the intensity of audio or sound level. Volume Unit (VU) – an entity equal to a decibel for expressing the magnitude ...

Digitally recorded music on CDs offers superior quality to that recorded on vinyl records or tape, but most prerecorded CDs have an annoying characteristic: The average volume levels of the recorded ...

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 ...

The author is a retired broadcast engineer in Mount Vernon, Va. This is in reference to the interesting and informative article in the May 8 issue by Oliver Berliner (“The ‘vu’ Meter Legacy Shines On” ...