[Elecraft] K3 Sherwood comments - harsh rx audio?

[Lee Buller]

Dave,

The rig sounds much like a IC-765..IMHO.  I have found that it is not harsh to my ears, but my ears are not perfect.  To many hours with headphones on...to much rock and roll...to much time behind the console at the radio stations.

It is much better than the 756PROII and is much more quiet.  I found that it really likes 4 ohm speakers....although the 8 ohm work....they seem a little down or off in audio quality. I am using Midland Mobile Radio speakers right now which are like Motorola or GE communication speakers.  They were free!  That was recommended by N0SS.  Headphones are Heil...and they sound pretty darn good.   The K3 can use two speakers for pseudo stereo effect.  That is very cool...the AFX feature makes listening to SSB a joy.  The AFX has a much more "depth" sound to it.  CW is clean too, but again...I do not have a meter.  I am just giving you a report from a user.

I do not find it harsh.  One of the things I like about the audio that is has a lot of it.  It doesn't take much to drive the speaker to distortion so the rig has plenty of audio to drive the speakers.  There is a menu item that you can either set the audio to HI or LO.

I've spend some time listening to TX5C over the course of the last week...and I know that if I had done that with the PROII...my ears or brain would be very tired.  No so with the K3.  The fatigue of listening is just not there.  I could testify to that between the PROII and the K2 as well.

Not scientific comments....just from a user.

Lee - K0WA

 

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