[Elecraft] K3 DSP processor speed

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

There are no bad radios currently on the market.  Some are better 
radios, but better is in the eyes {ears} of the beholder.  However, 
those radios of yesteryear, as compared to the current breed of radios 
from Elecraft, Kenwood, Yaesu, ICOM, Flex and Tentec and ????? are 
really in the back seat in terms of overall  performance. Yes we do have 
our favorite because of our operation preferences, our QTH, our antenna 
farm restricted or not, our personal type of noise and a host of other 
variables.

I agree with Rob Sherwood...........If it fits your needs and budget and 
you enjoy using it, then it is a good radio.  Look no further. However, 
as technology moves forward at present at lightning speed, I believe if 
a radio is approaching 10 years old or more, one should consider 
replacing it.

73
Bob, K4TAX
K3S s/n 10163

  

On 11/10/2015 2:06 PM, GRANT YOUNGMAN wrote:
> It seems to me that “drowning in Kool Aid” is no worse than what are little more than anecdotal comments about how one radio is better than another one in regards to noise reduction.  Especially because essentially the same “leaky LMS”  algorithm is used by most if not all of them.  And it doesn’t have very much to do with how many Tera-hertz the DSP chips run or how much the radio weighs.
>
> On another list, at another time, for a for a very good radio made by another American manufacturer, we had all the same never ending arguments.  I’m sure if we took those posts and changed the name of the radio, you couldn't tell them from the current crop.   Someone always thought their IC-xxx or TS-yyyy was sooooo much better.  Anyone saying anything positive about the radio in question (on just about any topic) was immediately accused of being a fan of Kool Aid and having gone to the dark side.  It took actual measurements of (S+N)/N to make the point that — oh, by the way — NR on that radio did what it was supposed to do — raise (S+N)/N on the signal of interest — quite well, regardless of how much or how little it sounded your favorite “other” radio.
>
> Perhaps someone would like to offer up one or more actual facts,  or make some actual confirmable measurements.  It isn’t that hard to do.