I have the sdr-iq and the flex 5000a, love them both. I like winrad a bit better then spectraview, mostly because of the ecss mode. Both sound very good, the spectraview has always had much lower volume levels but sounds fine. Most of my listening is using headphones plugged into the Sony laptop. CPU use is very low, under 10% surfing the web and doing email while listening. 1.6 GHz dual core vista 32, very slow compared to the computer I run the flex on.
The flex goes into a Marantz amp and a 3 way speaker with a 12 inch woofer, or headphones. I don't notice any difference between the radios. Both radios sound as good or better than the hifi homebrew receivers I built just for hifi AM. Brett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bernie Doran" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of AM Radio in the Amateur Service" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:02 PM Subject: [AMRadio] sdr-iq >I purchased an SDR-iQ about five weeks ago and while it performs great in a > number of areas it seems to be poor in the audio demodulation, at least on > AM, I am getting what sounds like a low level echo and a general > artificial > quality of sound, my 75A2 sounds much better and that certainly is not > good > quality audio. it is difficult to copy a moderate level AM signal. the > computer plays DVDs and CDs fine and sounds good. I talked to the store > that > I purchased it from and they said they have heard this before and that I > should not expect it to sound like a VT receiver!!!!! that was a shock, > what did I buy it for?. computer is a single core 2.8 gig, it shows it > running at about %75. any one else use these things? or have experience > with > the Flex 5000a? Bernie > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net > AMRadio mailing list > Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html > List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio > Post: [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with > the word unsubscribe in the message body. > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Our Main Website: http://www.amfone.net AMRadio mailing list Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ List Rules (must read!): http://w5ami.net/amradiofaq.html List Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/amradio Post: [email protected] To unsubscribe, send an email to [email protected] with the word unsubscribe in the message body. This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
