[Elecraft] External Speakers

[Bill NY9H]

Hi all,    a good stereo speaker , will probably be a bad speaker for the K2.
To have good low freq response, a speaker must move air, alot of air.
With a Big cone, or little cone with alot of excursion, but in either case 
if it's got great LF response it will usually not be very efficient in the 
midrange 500-3k . I've been setting up a speaker for the top half of the 
EC2/100AT. With not much height available...i chose to use two small 
elliptical speakers. I need two because, I haven't found a small enough 
speaker with adequate audio output, or sensitivity. I will probably have to 
add an amp stage to make up for the large difference in sensitivity. The 
spec on the K2 speaker is if i guessed the right one is  SPL (dB): 95 ... 
the guys did a great job picking a very sensitive speaker. That is why many 
of the speakers we try as externals do not have enough volume.
RatShack has a  dual, portable battery powered speaker system. Looks to be 
2.5" drivers.. which I'll bet has good LF, but since it has a built in amp 
, probably  will be fine for voice...  but I'm waitin for a sale,,,,

bill


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>What are you doing for an external speaker?  I picked up some "stereo 
>speakers" at radio shack (very nice looking and very compact and matches 
>the K2 very well, and were on sale - cheap!) and I am not all that happy 
>with them.  Yes, they are 8 ohm speakers.