[Elecraft] K3S audio board for K3 upgrade?

[F5vjc]

Behringer MS40 outstanding with my K3, no RFI problems either.

73,  Deni - F5VJC



On 22 March 2016 at 16:36, Bill Davis via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> wrote:

>   I am not much of a "poster", but this thread has had my close attention.
> I guess even though I have been hamming for over 60yrs, I had somehow grown
> to believe that speakers for voice communication or CW, for that matter,
> were very NON- critical. In recent years I have come to a very much
> DIFFERENT opinion.
>   For close to 10yrs my 2m SSB rig was an Icom 746Pro. I loved the audio
> out of that rig. It had a 2m SSB only TX issue that Icom could not resolve
> after multiple trips back for repair. I sold it and bought a Kenwood
> TS2000. Swapped the rigs out and was dismayed at how horrible the rec audio
> sounded out of the 2000. That was with the same Motorola 2way speaker that
> I had used for years with the 746Pro! I mean horrible! I have quite a
> collection of the Motorola speakers and trying them one at a time, I found
> one that I could live with, not quite as good as the Pro but ok. Boy that
> 2000 was fussy about speakers.
>   Fall of 2009 when I added a K3 to the operating position, I found a
> similar "fussyness", when it came to speaker selection. I was NOT satisfied
> with the Motorola speaker that I had used happily with a IC-735 for many
> years. Speaker selection seem "critical" just like the 2000. That coupled
> with how one sets the Shift/ Width/Hi-Low cut make huge differences in the
> way the radio sounds (obvious). Huge variability with the Shift/
> Width/Hi-Low combined with mode and filter. WE HAVE CONTROL of these
> variables, they are not predetermined. I can make the K3 unpleasant to
> listen to with some combinations, no question.
>
>   Last month a K3s entered the picture and again I was trying about every
> speaker I had. Trying to find one that sounded as good as the K3 / Motorola
> speaker combo. None of my Motorola speakers came close. In the end I found
> a speaker from a failed power speaker system that I had relegated to the
> garage. I very much like the sound of that speaker and the K3s.
>   I use RX equalization AFTER I find a speaker that I can live with. I
> know that in this time of my life, my ears are not what they were  decades
> ago. I suspect that not only do I have known losses, but I may have certain
> frequency ranges that may be ANNOYING as well.
> I know back in my HiFi / Stereo days with vacuum tube amplifiers, speaker
> selection was pretty simple for me. When I transitioned to solid state
> amps, not so much.
>
> To anyone who dislikes the sound of your K3 or K3s, my experience is try
> LOTs of different speakers. I saw huge differences, not subtle, but HUGE.
> I'll bet you can find one that will work satisfactorily. These solid state
> AF amplifiers just may be more fussy about that transducer that is attached
> than what some of us would expect.
>
> 73 Bill K0AWU
>
>
>
>       From: ke9uw <c-hawley at illinois.edu>
>  To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 8:30 AM
>  Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S audio board for K3 upgrade?
>
> I had a 480 and did not care for the sort of pinched up audio compared to
> say
> the 850.
> I am using a couple of 6 by 9 speakers in enclosures on the K3, one on each
> side of the stereo and the sound is just fine. As they say, opinions vary
> and have so many variables like speakers, what/how/where you operate,
> physical hearing anomalies, etc. that audio reviews are just about useless.
>
>
>
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> Chuck, KE9UW
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