[Elecraft] New K3S

[n9tf at comcast.net]

Hi Joe, 
  
I received my K3S last week SN 10057. I cannot give you an A-B comparison against the original K3 as I never had one. One thing I can comment on though A to B, is about the speaker audio between the K3 and K3S as I was exposed to several K3's at field day. The speaker audio is MUCH cleaner with better gain and no distortion. I am running the speaker out to a pair of Polk book end speakers (passive) from a surround sound entertainment system. Very clean audio. The internal speaker also presents a very clean, loud, undistorted quality. 
Any other comparisons would be compared against my previous Icom ProIII, which so far is night and day! I have the following roofing filters set up. 6Khz, 2.7Khz, 500hz and 250hz. I am amazed at how tight this receiver is with these roofing filters, and the flexibility of all RX options compared to what I was using. With regard to the preamps, I can only compare to ProIII, and the S/N  with pre amp 1 or 2 in has a much higher signal level to noise floor increase. Very clean. 
  
I am still in the learning mode at this time! 
  
73 Gene, N9TF 
  
K3S - 10057 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Joe W2KJ" <w2kj at bellsouth.net> 
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2015 4:02:28 PM 
Subject: [Elecraft] New K3S 

Howdy Gang: 

I wonder if anyone has received a new K3S yet?? 

Would certainly appreciate any comments as to performance, receive audio quality, new preamps, etc, etc. 

Many thanks for any info. 

                        73, Joe W2KJ 
                        I QRP, therefore I am 
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