[Elecraft] Turn on turn off transients

Randy Farmer w8fn at tx.rr.com
Wed May 2 21:01:36 EDT 2012


At the risk of resurrecting the "Speakers" thread, my experience is that 
I've never been able to make any full range speaker, powered or 
otherwise, sound acceptable on any amateur rig. No matter what I try, I 
keep returning to my trusty pair of unpowered Motorola 2 way radio 
speakers. The Moto guys knew what they were doing when they wrote the 
specs for those.

Just for clarification, I was making an observation,  not complaining, 
about the power transient. Just like with any number of cheap stereo 
amps I had before I got my good ones, I make it a practice to turn the 
amp off/down before powering the K3 on or off. Works for me.

73...
Randy, W8FN

On 05/02/2012 05:23, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> Probably of more consequence in the powered speakers is that they all are
> targeted at music use on PC's.  They are in tiny enclosures and have a huge
> bass pre-emphasis to keep them from sounding "tinny".  The pre-emphasis
> will increase with increasingly lower frequency, likely meaning that
> something with components around 5-20 Hz at the amplitude of turn-on pops
> is hugely emphasized.
>
> 73, Guy


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