[Elecraft] KX1 headphones

[Brett Howard]

I've worked as a design engineer in the audio industry for quite a
while...  Rather than provide a list I'll just agree to disagree.

Personally I see "communications" specific headphones as a product
designed to separate people from their money and in that task they are
quite effective.  

~BTH

On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 22:21 -0400, Mike Morrow wrote:
> >The filtering should be done before the audio gets to the headphones.
> >A low end pair of headphones only acts to cover up flaws in receiver
> >design.
> 
> What an imaginative and creative response!   You say in effect that all
> those purpose-designed limited frequency response audio devices that
> communcations engineers have created for many decades are completely
> unnecessary if only one has a properly designed receiver.  Please, give us some
> examples of such receivers which are not aided by the use of properly
> designed narrow response audio devices.
> 
> We were discussing the KX1.  Is that on your list?  Do you contest the benefit
> of narrow response headphones here?   (HINT:  I have many receivers better
> than the KX1, still proper frequency response limited headsets help.)
> 
> If you have no valid list, your assertion is gratuitous.
> 
> Aside from this <null> list, most people do not design the receiver they are using,
> nor do they choose one designed elsewhere, with the goal of obtaining one that
> allows them to use entertainment quality headphones to no disadvantage, when
> when something of narrower response is better.
> 
> Here are the facts:  Regardless of receiver design, even for communication receivers
> of the highest quality, it is ALWAYS very helpful to use properly designed 
> communications headsets, as opposed to expensive (or cheap) hi-fi entertainment sets.
> There are NO exceptions to this.
> 
> Mike / KK5F
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