[Elecraft] K3 audio quality

[Richard Fjeld]

I usually use a Yamaha CM500 headset which I like very much.

For an external speaker, early into the hobby I made a nice walnut frame 
with grill cloth to house an old speaker from a Muntz TV, if you 
remember those. It became a keepsake.

Dick, n0ce


On 9/16/2016 8:49 AM, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
> I have yet to use any internal SS radio's speaker except for an occasional test or possibly a portable set-up.
> They may as well leave it out as far as I'm concerned.  NONE of them come anywhere close to the sound quality I get from simple outboard speakers.
> (Note, this does NOT include the over-priced, cheap speaker in a metal box often sold as a matching "accessory" by the big-three.)
> Personally, I find the recovered audio from my K3s, feeding two little computer speakers to be the best of any modern radio I have ever used.
> That said, it's hard to beat the audio from an old boatanchor radio with push-pull 6V6's driving a big 12" speaker cabinet.
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> 73, Charlie k3ICH
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