[R-390] Re: bad audio

[Bryce Ringwood]

Oh dear,

There I was thinking how nice it sounded through an EL84 amp and
home-made speaker in the 16kHz position. The audio must be better than
my ears - or is it that our local AM stations put out a high quality ?

Bryce

>>> bw <ba.williams@charter.net> 2004/02/01 03:48:42 >>>
Cecil,

That does make a difference. Still, the audio isn't that terrible on a

stock A, imho. It ain't great like the SP-660, but those are two 
different environments. I don't bandcruise a lot, so maybe I'm not 
missing a lot from the SW bcst stations. Speakers or headphones make a

bigger difference to me than the filters. Maybe it is just impressions,

but it seems to me that I get more audio 'data' from the tighter
filters 
like station ID, what they are saying, etc than I do with wider filters

and increased band noise and hets. Music is better on the SP, but is 
music that great on HF with any radio?



Barry

>Well the trick, that is documented somewhere out there, is to take
your
>audio off the Diode Load point on the rear of the radio.  Feed it
through a
>matching circuit and into an external HI-FI amp and quality
speaker.(anybody
>remember that)  I understand it sounds very good that way....now mind
you it
>probably won't ever sound as good as a radio such as the R-390 or
SP-600
>with LC filters, on a big 12" speaker but with the increasingly
crowded
>conditions on the bands at times the tighter mechanical filters may
make the
>difference between being able to enjoy the signal or not.
>
>There are also some AF deck mods that perk up the audio quality as
well.
>Mr. Rippel has info on his page about that.
>
>Cecil...
>  
>

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