I prefer the Golden Ratio for my solder, but 63/37 is often the best I can 
find. Sadly.

wunder
K6WRU

On Oct 19, 2013, at 11:22 PM, Al Lorona wrote:

> You are right about all of that, but the original post (and the original QST 
> letter to which it referred) appeared to be talking about copying a single 
> signal, rather than the complex process of discriminating between two signals 
> close to each other, and it implied some near-universal psychoacoustic 
> preference for the single frequency of 432 Hz. Not 430, not 435, but 432! 
> This supposed preference is what I rejected as junk science.
>  
> The next thing you know, someone somewhere is going to claim that Elecraft 
> radios soldered with 63/37 solder sound superior to those soldered with a 
> different blend.
>  
> Al  W6LX  [who listens at about a D-flat]
>  
>  
>>> I'll inject some science into the discussion based on my profession of 
>>> electroacoustics.  
>>> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> 
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