That's been my experience too, "really great sound" is somewhat akin to
pornography ... as Justice Stewart said, "Impossible to objectively
define but I know it when I see [or hear] it." I inherited an SX-28
with the large bass reflex speaker a number of years ago. As a ham
receiver in the 21st century, it left a lot to be desired, but it really
"sounded" great on BC stations, and those stations on 75 at night
pretending to be BC stations. I can't define "fatiguing" either, but
running AFSK at 915 Hz MARK, I start getting a headache after 4 or 5 hours.
My hearing is severely compromised, and I never use the internal K3
speaker and have never had anything plugged into the EXT SPKR jack. I
have a Heil Proset from Elecraft and recently acquired a David Clark
aviation headset. K9YC gave me a tip on the RX EQ to get the equivalent
of about 30 dB of equalization out of it. My settings approximate one
of the "programs" in my hearing aids [30 dB isn't nearly enough but it
helps] sufficiently that I can dabble in NAQP and SS SSB.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org
On 3/21/2016 12:06 PM, Dave Cole wrote:
Berry,
Actually it is quite complicated to define what is wrong with the
"sound" of something... What makes audio "fatiguing", exactly? I
can't say, and no amount of listening to it, or playing with the EQ has
fixed it in my case...
Nor does using some non certified soundcard does not sound like the
path to pristine audio...
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