[Elecraft] K3 RX Audio

[Gary Gregory]

Trevor,

With the 8 band EQ settings I think most operators either forget or are
unfamiliar with how much the received (perceived?) audio can be tailored to
the individuals hearing.

Sure you can use stereo headsets (which I do) and or use the internal
speaker provided. Again, audio is really dependent on the individuals
hearing and this of course varies widely. I have Tinitus (no, I am not
complaining, well, too much) and this reduces somewhat my ability to "hear"
many of the frequencies "others" might hear but having said that, the K3
produces good quality audio IF you take the time to adjust the audio via
the EQ, AGC, Slope and other subsets as detailed in the manual.

I doubt any internal speaker in any of the current crop of offerings will
produce a full rich sounding audio and I will leave it to "others" to
comment on why as I think most of us understand why anyway. The CM500
headset does a real nice job for me and I have also used stereo computer
speakers as well. Both work well and the internal speaker is OK but as
others will testify it is not designed or intended (my opinion only) to
produce broadcast quality audio. It is a communications device.

After market Pro Audio gear from Behringer and such used for transmit
doesn't help anyone's receive audio in my view, it just consumes bandwidth
and on the P3 it does not look real flash either. I have tried changing the
settings in the EQ when listening to these operators and it does improve
the audio quality somewhat but at the expense involved for those using
Pro-Audio gear I don't see the "bang for your buck" justification at all.

Just my rambling thoughts on the subject...YMMV...:-)

Regards,
Gary (Deaf as a post)

On 19 July 2013 21:32, Stephen Prior <eastbrantwood at gmail.com> wrote:

> Trevor
>
> My #930 has always sounded nice to me with a pair of high end sennheiser
> headphones with far less background hiss than either the ts480 or IC7000
> which preceded it. I did the dsp board swap a couple of years ago and that
> made it even more pleasant to listen to. In my opinion, even for its size,
> the built in speaker in the k3 is disappointing and I don't use it.
>
> 73 Stephen G4SJP
>
> Full of typos from my iPhone
>
>
> On 19 Jul 2013, at 13:16, Trevor Dunne <trevor_dunne at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All
> >
> > I am allmost ready to order my K3 but I keep reading about people that
> are unhappy with the RX audio,
> >
> > Is this still a problem or has there been changes made to slove it, Can
> someone point me to a good guide on how to set the RX up to remove the
> harsh sounding audio.
> >
> > I will mainly be using a headset as DXing is my main interest.
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Trevor
> > EI2GLB
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