[Elecraft] K2 external speaker?

[W3FPR - Don Wilhelm]

Mike,

Yes, a mixer will do a fine job of that task, and you may even want to route
the computer soundcard through it as well.

For speakers, I have previously built a small external amplified speaker
that I have tailored the range for best communications for my ears, but I am
moving to a setup with a full range good quality stereo system (yes, I also
use it to listen to music).  For communications quality sound tailored to my
ears, I use a good quality stereo graphic equalizer between the ham gear and
the stereo system - I have 5 frequency bands in half octave steps and a 12
dB boost or cut for each band.  If you are considering a mixer, you may want
to add a graphic equalizer (or buy a mixer with adequate equalization
control capability for each channel) and feed a higher quality music system
rather than having several small special purpose speakers - you will end up
with cleaner audio because of the lower distortion in the better amplifiers
and speakers - but beware, this is not a 'small bookshelf' implementation.
I will eventually build my own custom 'mixer' that will handle several
radios for both input and output and incorporate the computer soundcard for
both digital modes and recording - all is in the plan, now I just have to
get it all together.

73,
Don W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
>
> I'd like to have my ham & SWL radios use the same decent quality
> external speaker by routing audio probably via one of the lower end
> Behringer UBxx02 mixers.  Does anyone have a favorite external speaker
> he'd recommend?  Soundsweet.com, MFJ, "makes little difference as long
> as its big" :-), others?
>
>
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