[Elecraft] RE: More Audio OUTPUT please: The ongoing saga...

[Phil Wheeler]

k6se@juno.com wrote:

>Ron, AC7AC wrote:
>
>"I'd suggest that one way to evaluate that is to turn up your ST L
>(sidetone level) to 255 and see how loud it seems.....
>
>....If it's not darn near unbearable at 255 in the house, it's probably
>not as loud as mine. I can't and won't be near my K2 at that sound
>level."
>==========
>I just did Ron's ST L test with my K2 (#2622).  By no means is the
>sidetone so loud at ST L = 255 that it is unbearable, either on the
>speaker or on my headset.  It's not even what I would call very loud.
>
>.....
>As I once said, "Obviously all K2's are not created equal".  Either that,
>or Ron's ears are the most unusual on the planet.
>
>More audio output, PLEASE!
>

FWIW, Earl, Ron's hearing is not the issue.  My K2 has abundant audio, 
like his.  And my hearing has definite limitations: Deaf in one ear 
(with a high level of tinnitis) and age-related roll-off in the other. 
 Yet I run my AF gain at 0900 normally and have NEVER advanced it above 
1100 (and that's when I use an outboard DSP unit that needs more drive).

Clearly there is something amiss you rig and others.  And it does not 
seem to by S/N related. At least there are both early and late units 
with great audio and, it seems, some in each catagory with deficient audio.

Quite a mystery and one that needs solved.

73, Phil