[Elecraft] Ten Tec never sounded so good!

[Don Wilhelm]

One last comment - good distortion free speakers make listening to CW 
even more pleasant for me.
I cannot use headphones witout removing my hearing aids, so I use 
speakers most of the time.  I can sy for certain that "communications 
quality" speakers are quite irritating for me. even on CW - the 
distortion becomes irritating after a period of time - even if it is not 
immediately apparent.  I will stick with my wideer range speakers, thank 
you.

73,
Don W3FPR

lstavenhagen wrote:
> Well I'm not talking about speakers specifically. Just the the motivation for
> wideband audio response in general, i.e. ESSB and so on. 
> As I've said before, the primary reason I don't use the voice modes is that
> it's like trying to have a relaxing talk to a friend at a basketball game.
> It's fine when the band isn't crowded, but as soon as someone starts butting
> in 1 kc above or below you, the last thing, seems to me, that you want is
> the other stations using wideband, hi-fi audio. I thought that was what a
> traditional narrow communications freq. response was for.
>
> I understand the motivation for low distortion (I have some hearing damage
> from years as a musician), tho. And I did order a mic with my K3 for testing
> purposes (i.e. to make sure the mic inputs worked, I think the K3 will be my
> first rig with an actual working audio section hi hi) and the audio in the
> monitor sure enough sounds very clean.
>
> I guess that's what I love about digital and CW. You're not stuck with
> nearly as much QRM especially with rigs like the K2 and K3 where you can
> just squeeze the other signals out as much as you want. 
>
> Oh well, I was just curious, mostly because of my unfamiliarity with the
> voice modes, I suppose.
>
> 73,
> LS
> W5QD
>