Frequency accuracy?

[Don]

Hi,

Bob is correct--except that the calibration device is for the windows
platform only. And the device sent is calibrated by Dean out to 2 decimals
so 0.00 cents accurate.

At 10:03 AM 6/20/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Robert Scott wrote:
>> 
>> Frank Cahill writes:
>> 
>> >....Those $200 machines are not in the same
>> >category. They are not suitable for piano work. Only accutuners, RCT,
>> >and perhaps yamaha's PT100 are suitable.....
>> 
>> If you are talking about absolute frequency accuracy, remember that
>> the Windows RCT is only as accurate as the source used to calibrate it.
>> And from what I understand, the RCT is field calibrated against a
>> little quartz tone reference/metronome that costs a lot less than
>> $200.  That's the device whose accuracy you should be evaluating.
>> 
>> -Bob Scott
>>  Ann Arbor, Michigan
>
>
>Hi, Bob. I find that very interesting.  If you are correct, there could
>be alot of RCTs that are not properly calibrated.  I assumed that the
>RCT worked off an internal clock in the computer. 
>
>
>-- 
>
>Frank Cahill
>Associate Member, Piano Technicians Guild
>Northern Va
>
>Laugh and be fat. 
        John Taylor (1580?-1684)
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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