On 05-01-96 Terry Smith wrote to Alan Alsobrook... 
 
 TS>  AA> That I'm quite aware of, just apply some of the RF  
 TS>  AA> theroy back to audio.   
 TS> Care to wager what percentage of those who drop in here  
 TS> have any clue about that?     
  
Nope!!  
 
 TS> dBu, unreferenced, I still say is the term you're trying to  
 TS> recall, which is sort of an official "revisionist"  
 TS> definition of dB to not mean a power ratio.   
 
That very well could be the case.  I looked back through some of my  
reference books, most of which would be too old for anything new,  
and I found it interesting to note that the reason that +4 dBm was 
decided on as a standard level was the fact that there was a 4 dB loss 
betwine the line and the meter when a VU/VI was place acroos the line. 
 
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