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

[Don Wilhelm]

Guys,

I suspect that you are hearing differences in the speaker.  My K2 sounds
good through an external audio amp with a 5 inch woofer.  It is not
audiophile quality, but then it was not intended to be.  For communications
purposes it is great, the speaker sounds smooth and due to the speaker
characteristics it reduces the high frequencies above 3.5 to 4 kHz.

Nothing wrong with solid state amplifiers - many are cleaner than tube
types.  There are audio processors available that introduce some controlled
harmonic distortion to make solid state amps sould like tube types - these
devices are available in the pro-audio field.

73,
Don W3FPR


> -----Original Message-----
>
> 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
>