[Elecraft] Would a matching speaker be nice??

[WILLIS COOKE]

I picked up a pair of HP computer speakers that are black and look pretty nice with the K3.  They were $20 at Walmart for the pair.  That is about the price of shipping from Elecraft.  It is pretty hard for Elecraft to compete with the computer mass market.
 
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart


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 From: Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
To: redtarga4 at nycap.rr.com 
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Would a matching speaker be nice??
 
Steve,

This subject comes up from time to time, and the result (so far) has 
always been the same - an Elecraft speaker must be priced much higher 
than its value to the Elecraft principles.  So until that bridge can be 
mastered, you are not likely to see an Elecraft speaker.

It may come one day, but for today it does not exist -- the K3 (and KX3) 
would like to have 2 speakers for the audio effects (AFX, diversity for 
the K3 and dual watch for the KX3).

I can tell you that it has been considered, but discarded because the 
cost of offering an Elecraft speaker would greatly exceed what other 
speaker systems would cost -- yes, the parts cost $5 in quantity, but by 
the time you add all the overhead costs, it has to be sold for $150 each 
(those numbers are not based on anything other than my imagination, but 
do describe the point I am trying to make.

That is nothing different than the situation with branded and dedicated 
speakers offered by National, Collins, Hallicrafters, etc. in days past, 
but Elecraft does have owners who insist on giving the customer value 
for their money spent and cannot justify what they would need to charge 
for an Elecraft branded speaker when there are quality less cost 
speakers available on the open marketplace.  If you look at the prices 
of those speakers of old and compare them with the prices of the 
components, you will find that you paid more for the wrappings than you 
did for anything else.

Take a look in the pro-audio world for small monitor speakers, or in the 
consumer speaker world for rear speakers for Dolby 5.1 systems.  You 
will find a lot of nice speakers in black cabinets that will compliment 
the K3 (and KX3 quite nicely).  (OK, some of those speakers are not very 
efficient, and may not work well with the KX3, but for the K3 they will 
work just fine.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/20/2012 7:43 PM, redtarga4 at nycap.rr.com wrote:
> I wonder if Elecraft might consider offering a nice, matching, external speaker for the K2/3 line?. It's nice to have the audio coming straight out in front of you not bouncing out from the top cover. I have always owned the matching speaker for any of the rigs I've owned over the past 45 years. Anyone else out there think the same way?
>
> 73  Steve/k2we  K3/100 #6131
>
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