[Elecraft] What is your experience with the K3's AFX?

[Don Wilhelm]

As far as I am concerned, headphones and hearing aids do not mix.
My hearing loss problems may be a bit unique in that I have normal 
hearing in the low frequency range (up to about 1800 Hz), so my ears 
without the aids act as good low pass filters.  That is great for CW, 
but not so good for speech recognition on SSB.

For those times when I must use headphones, I remove the aids - but I 
have purchased a pair of good quality computer speakers which are placed 
about 3 feet from either ear and firing toward my head.  With the 
speakers in use, I can enjoy features such as AFX while wearing the 
aids.  I cannot vouch for AFX in CW mode, but I can say that using AFX 
MD delay = 2 in SSB creates a nice full sound for me - other settings 
seem to annoy me, but as Lyle has pointed out, each user will have a 
different perception, so YMMV.

BTW, my hearing aids have 3 stages of noise reduction available.  I 
normally use the setting with no reduction in the aids ('music' setting) 
which just compensates for my frequency loss.  I only use the noise 
reduction capability when I get into a crowd situation (crowded 
restaurant), and then I use the algorithm that works best for speech 
recognition in noise.  Again, your situation may be different.  For me, 
the speakers work best, but then, I have a tolerant spouse.

73,
Don W3FPR

nz0t wrote:
> I would like to hear what anybody that wears hearing aids thinks of AFX.  I
> usually take at least one of my aids out since it tends to squeal under a
> headphone and that means having to turn the audio way up.  I'm looking
> forward to trying AFX when my K3 arrives hoping it can help an old deaf guy.
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