[Elecraft] Just how good is the K2?

[Jim Brown]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:48:19 -0500, Floyd Sense wrote:

>Audio -- ,snip.  With the built-in speaker, I found it 
>adequate, but it needed a bit of external help when driving my 8 ohm station
>speaker.

This is simply the choice of the wrong loudspeaker to use with this
rig. The K2 appears to be designed to work into a 4 ohm loudspeaker,
and the one Wayne chose is a very efficient one. An 8 ohm loudspeaker
will drag 6 dB less power from the same output stage. Just by switching
to a 4 ohm loudspeaker will give you back that 6 dB. 

Jim K9YC