The telephone system is purposely designed to limit bandwidth at a maximum
of 4 KHz, Good sound systems go upwards of 18KHz, human hearing generally
tops out at about 16KHz, if your lucky. You could use extra, super thick,
mega fat, gigantic monster (R) cables, for your phone line, but it would
still sound the same. The bandwidth is electronically limited. What you
get with splices and long cable runs is noise and low volume.
The phone company used the 4 kHz mark back at the beginning of the last
century, because they determined that that was the minimum amount of
bandwidth required to transmit intelligent speech. This bandwidth permits
the maximum amount of channel multiplexing.
I suppose this thread is in this NG because sound systems originally came in
fine wooden cabinets??


"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
m...
mark wrote:
I don't know. Think about this. You listen to music on your $6000
stereo
and it sounds good. When you call a store and are put on "hold", that
same music does not sound so good over the telephone. Why? Think about
all those spices and connections on the phone wires. That must be the
difference. If the phone company used straight runs of Monster Cable,
we'd get the same good sound.


Perhaps the difference might be found in the typical length of stereo
cables are
somewhere between 3 and 6 feet while the telephone company runs cables for
miles.

Just a thought....




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Mortimer Schnerd, RN

VE