[Elecraft] K3 & FTDX5000 you tube

[Don Wilhelm]

  Guy,

Well, like your AM Broadcast radio, I did such subjective comparative 
evaluations when choosing my component audio gear.  As a "for instance", 
I listened to several speakers while keeping all the other components 
constant.  I chose other components in the same manner.
Since I was choosing for myself (and my ears), it did not matter what 
the specs indicated, nor what the reviews of others would say - it was 
only my personal choices that needed to be considered.  I am not so 
brash to state that my choices should be the selections for anyone else 
- that was a personal choice based on my ears alone.

This video provided nothing in the arena of conclusions that I could 
decipher.  I can surmise that the intent was to show that the FT was 
"better" than the K3, but that is only my assumption.  As I said, the K3 
sounded more intelligible to my ears, while the FT had more bass content 
- others are allowed to differ.  You have heard the advice from Jim 
Brown and Joe Subich many times on this reflector to reduce the TX EQ 
bass response for better intelligibility and more effective SSB power - 
receive is not much different unless one is striving for "broadcast 
quality" instead of intelligibility.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/21/2010 8:05 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> I remember in 1959 I was in a shop selling AM broadcast radios.  I
> must have listened to 20 or 30 different models and was worried
> someone was going to come and throw me out.  I finally heard a Zenith
> 6 tube in a bakelite case that I thought had the "best sound" I could
> actually buy.  I took it to college with me and listened to the Grand
> Ole Opry and country music from Nashville with it.  The tone was
> extraordinary for a small radio and I loved it.
>
> That was the last time in my life that just putting two radios on the
> shelf and listening to them without further qualification was worth a
> plugged nickel because I kept that radio for twenty years and never
> bought another "canned" AM radio.  Comparing a K3 and a Yaesu 5000
> without the lab setup work?  Not fair to either radio.  Jeeeze.  I'd
> be ashamed to put that up on the internet.
>
> 73, Guy.
>