[Elecraft] K3S In-Depth Review Coming Soon?

Stewart stewart at twinwood.me
Wed Oct 28 03:41:35 EDT 2015


I am interested as to whether the corrected DSP AGC algorithms will be available 
for K3 DSP's.

73
Stewart G3RXQ
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 13:28:19 -0700, Wayne Burdick wrote:
> We've made several changes to improve audio over years, and a K3S incorporates 
all of them:
>
> - K3:  improved 12VDC decoupling to the AF amp
> - K3:  added a dual low-noise LPF to eliminate residual sampling noise (mostly 
at 12 kHz)
> - K3:  corrected DSP AGC algorithms, which were non-monotonic at some signal 
levels
> - K3S: redesigned AF output and driver stages for lower IMD
>
> Taken together, these changes provide a low-distortion, essentially flat audio 
passband. Most other modern transceivers use the same (or similar) class-AB 
final AF amp devices that we use in the K3/K3S, so how it sounds comes down to 
how RX EQ is set up, as well as the LO-CUT/HI-CUT (or shift/width) settings.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:10 PM, Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO <k2vco.vic at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>
>> Operators disagree about K3/K3S audio.
>
>
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