[Elecraft] K3 - perceived RX and TX audio

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:48 PM, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>
wrote:

> low level pass band mixing was still an issue


If I know exactly what you mean by low level pass band mixing, the multiple
weak signal "muddle", that problem was decisively cleared up by the
firmware significant digit fix for the AGC algorithm. It was a startling
improvement in the K3's sound. It was even more startling in what it did
for diversity reception of a weak signal pileup. Prior to the fix, the
muddle had been removing the aural clues that the brain uses to create a
sound stage. Afterwards, wow.

At this point, that fix was a long time ago. Elecraft has been working on
the K3 for what, seven years now. Any complaint made first 5 years ago is
likely long since fixed, though some, with one complaint fixed, seem to
take little joy in that and immediately look for something else to complain
about.

Some people still have a theoretical complaint about one device in the
analog RF/IF RX string, but I have never been able to hear anything they
were complaining about. They had their theoretical point no question, but
apparently the K3 does not live in the range where that point would be
invoked. So no harm, no foul.

I don't drink KoolAid. Don't believe in it. But there's a bunch that drinks
55 gallon drums of inverse KoolAid.

73, Guy