Sunday, March 16, 2025

Hear Today, Gone Tomorrow

Public domain image courtesy Pexels.
Remember when you were young and could hear the high pitched whine of the horizontal line scan transformer in a TV that was using the 625 line system? The line output or LOPT transformer operated at 15,625 Hz, and you could tell that the TV was turned on, even with the sound turned down. Before that in the early 70s, vertical resolution was 405 lines. Young children can hear up to a frequency of 20 kHz. Most of us over 50 can only hear to 10 kHz.