[Elecraft] K3S audio board for K3 upgrade?

[Fred Jensen]

That's been my experience too, "really great sound" is somewhat akin to 
pornography ... as Justice Stewart said, "Impossible to objectively 
define but I know it when I see [or hear] it."  I inherited an SX-28 
with the large bass reflex speaker a number of years ago.  As a ham 
receiver in the 21st century, it left a lot to be desired, but it really 
"sounded" great on BC stations, and those stations on 75 at night 
pretending to be BC stations.  I can't define "fatiguing" either, but 
running AFSK at 915 Hz MARK, I start getting a headache after 4 or 5 hours.

My hearing is severely compromised, and I never use the internal K3 
speaker and have never had anything plugged into the EXT SPKR jack.  I 
have a Heil Proset from Elecraft and recently acquired a David Clark 
aviation headset.  K9YC gave me a tip on the RX EQ to get the equivalent 
of about 30 dB of equalization out of it.  My settings approximate one 
of the "programs" in my hearing aids [30 dB isn't nearly enough but it 
helps] sufficiently that I can dabble in NAQP and SS SSB.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org

On 3/21/2016 12:06 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
> Berry,
>
> Actually it is quite complicated to define what is wrong with the
> "sound" of something...  What makes audio "fatiguing", exactly?  I
> can't say, and no amount of listening to it, or playing with the EQ has
> fixed it in my case...

> Nor does using some non certified soundcard does not sound like the
> path to pristine audio...
>