[Elecraft] Any solution to the audio blast issue yet ?

[O. Johns]

If I may chime in here, I hope very strongly that nobody is using deep- 
in-the-ear type earbuds with the K3 or any other radio.  TO DO SO  
MIGHT RUIN YOUR EARS.

I have some Shure deep-in-the-ear earbuds that I use with my iPod on  
airplane flights.  They have wonderful fidelity and also almost  
completely shut out the roar of the jet engines.  BUT, they take about  
ten seconds minimum to get out of my ears.  If some radio produced an  
anomalously loud blast while using them, your ears could be ruined  
before you could react.

I read an article a while back about an engineer who lost his hearing  
in just such an accident.  In the old days, many soundcard  
manufacturers installed their soundcards with a default of full  
volume.  This guy was trying a new soundcard using deep-in-the-ear  
earbuds.  By the time he could get them out of his ears, he had  
permanent damage.

73,
Oliver Johns
W6ODJ




On 25 Sep 2009, at 12:07 AM, Enno J. Korma, PF5X wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder what the status of the audio 'artifact' or blast is.  
> According to
> PA4N, who uses F/W 3.30, it still happens, be it rarely. As a  
> headphone
> user, such audio blast is quite unacceptable to me and therefore I  
> hope
> Elecraft is addressing this issue with some priority.
>
> Can Lyle or Wayne comment on this ?? Thanks !
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Enno Korma, PF5X
>
> Malden, The Netherlands
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