[Elecraft] Is DVR audio really getting equalized and compressed?

[FredJensen]

Like some other threads, I'm baffled by this one.  I installed the 
KDVR3.  I recorded some stuff from my Heil headset/boom mic I got from 
Elecraft [iC element I think, plugged into the back jack] without 
messing around with any of my audio settings.  I played them back in TX 
TEST mode, and they sounded like I sound to myself in the monitor audio, 
including audio levels.  I played them for a nearby buddy and talked to 
him.  He couldn't tell the difference.  In the WPX SSB last weekend, I 
got 3 unsolicited "Great audio" reports, one from 9K.

I have my TX EQ set as Jim, K9YC, has posted here several times, strong 
low cut and moderate high boost.  I'm nearly deaf, so I have my RX EQ 
for SSB set to try to approximate the shape of my digital hearing 
aids.   It doesn't have near the gain they do, but it does help.  I have 
recorded off-the air [same buddy], and played it back to him on the air, 
both with my normal TX EQ and with it flat.  He can definitely tell the 
difference.

As I said, I'm baffled by this thread.  My KDVR3 was literally "plug and 
play."  I first used it in the ARRL SS for the static part of my 
exchange and CQ.  Several people said [unsolicited], "nice to hear 
recorded audio that sounds like you do."  If there's a separate gain 
control for it in the latest firmware, that's OK, I'll just ignore it.

73,

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA

On 3/30/2011 10:59 PM, N6JW wrote:
> Hi Michael:
>
> Thanks for helping clarify some of the confusion.  Unfortunately, you
> have perhaps (inadvertently) added some of your own.