[Elecraft] TS870

[Julian G4ILO]

When you listen to the "music" most people listen to, the quality
hardly matters. :)

However, there are lossless audio compression formats, and formats
that can support higher bit-rates (and therefore presumably higher
fidelity) than standard CDs, so I guess the advertising is true. It's
just that most people are happy to trade quality for small file size.

As far as amateur communications go I think the quality of the
transmitted audio makes more difference than the quality of the
receiver. Some of the cleanest sounding SSB I have ever heard came
from the Kenwood TS-520 / TS-820 / TS-830 transceivers with their tube
finals. Then solid state PAs came along. I doubt if even the K3 output
stages will have better linearity and IMD than a pair of 6146Bs in
push-pull, but Elecraft is always capable of surprising us. ;)

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On 8/24/07, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO, as a society, we may declining rapidly in audio perception when I
> hear advertising statements which hint that MP3 recordings are better
> quality than CD recordings!  We have finally achieved good quality
> digital preservation of sound waves, and now the iPod crowd and its
> popularity may be diminishing the easy availability of high quality
> recordings for the consumer - that trend concerns me.