[Elecraft] External speaker recommendation.....

[Don Wilhelm]

Ed,

One possible reason for your lack of satisfaction in external speakers 
may be that they are all 8 ohm speakers.
The K2 audio amplifier does not have a lot of excess gain (that was by 
design to limit the receive current). If you are to get a decent amount 
of power out of it, the speaker load must be 4 ohms or less. A higher 
impedance (or less efficient) speaker will sound quite weak compared to 
the internal speaker.

An amplified speaker can be used to fix that.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 1/6/2014 4:01 PM, Eddy wrote:
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> I'm amazed at how well my K2 internal speaker works and sounds! Every time I plug in an external speaker, I've quickly gone back to the internal speaker........
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> So, has anyone found an external speaker for the k2 that sounds "better" than the internal unit? Also, I'm really not willing to spend a bunch of $$ on one...
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> Thanks and 73
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> ed
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