[Elecraft] K3 - Sweet sidetone!

[Andrew Moore]

> Here is what the sidetone really sounds like (using the handy TX TEST
> feature of the K3 that disables output, but lets you oterwise
> "transmit"):
>
> http://www.kkn.net/~tree/160/Sidetone.mp3

It does sound good -- and different.  It almost sounds like there's
some kind of phase difference between right and left ears when using
headphones.  Is the K3 doing any kind of stereo processing to the
sidetone signal to make it sounds so "good" (or different)?

I had to admit, I didn't even copy the call sign in the .mp3 sample
because I was so distracted by the different sounding sidetone.  Not
sure if that's a good thing.  I'm just curious... is it a deliberate
design decision or just some side effect of converting it to the .mp3
file or what?

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