[Elecraft] K2 vs. Drake 2B - New vs. classic.

[Karl Larsen]

    Guys your leaving in the speaker which makes some radios sound 
terrible. Do this: Get your best earphones and plug them in and listen 
to quality. My AT Sprint 3 which has good audio sounds clean and clear 
on good signals like WWV when they are not modulated.

    I had a Drake 2B and it was the very first good receiver I ever 
owned. Right now I will put my Yaesu FT-857D receiver up against any 
comers. But with earphones not the crummy 2" speaker...hi

73 Karl




Darrell Bellerive wrote:
> I find the same thing with my K2. I originally thought that something may be 
> wrong, but listening to the same CW signals on a Heathkit SW-7800 are even 
> worse.
>
> I suspect that what we are hearing is simply the solid state audio section. I 
> could be wrong but I don't think that audiophiles are falling over themselves 
> trying to buy audio amps with LM380 and LM386 integrated circuits.
>
> The fact that the odd CW signal sounds perfect is confusing. I am experiencing 
> the same thing.
>
> Be interesting to pipe the audio from the detector into a HiFi tube amp.
>
> Darrell  VA7TO  K2#5093
>
> On August 20, 2006 01:48 pm, Mike Harris wrote:
>   
>> <quote>
>> Bad:  The tone of the 2B is noticeably smoother and purer than the K2.
>> The K2, while it has a good S/N ratio, has a bit of a hollow tone and a
>> bit of a raspy or bearly edgey CW tone.  The 2B is very pure sine wave.
>> Very mellow, very nice to listen to.
>> <unquote>
>>
>> This has troubled me for quite a while.  Sometimes all CW sigs seem to
>> have a harsh tone and then you tune into another station that is a pure
>> note, very odd.  Also the chirpy signals seem to be a nice note, albeit
>> varying.  I'm beginning to wonder if there is a harsh note built into some
>> of the modern synth rigs.  SSB sounds OK.
>>
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