Using a couple old Radio Shack "Minimus" speakers, I find the K3s to be the best sounding and easiest to listen to radio I have ever had. I agree, the TS-2000 as well as the TS-480, while an excellent mobile rig, does in fact roll off the higher frequencies too much for my antique ears. This started to happen around the time Kenwood went to digital demodulation instead of analog circuitry.
I was on one of the nets the other day using my K3s and noticed the net control station was particularly hard to understand. I thought my hearing had gone or maybe I had set some parameter incorrectly. Then I looked at the panadapter display. There was a very pronounced peak in his audio around 300 hz and practically no energy past about 800Hz. No distortion, just a widely skewed audio passband. It was a boatanchor radio, so there was something obviously wrong somewhere as everyone else sounded great. My gut feel is that the K3s IS an improvement over the K3 in regard to the recovered audio. 73, Charlie k3ICH -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ke9uw Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 9:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S audio board for K3 upgrade? I had a 480 and did not care for the sort of pinched up audio compared to say the 850. I am using a couple of 6 by 9 speakers in enclosures on the K3, one on each side of the stereo and the sound is just fine. As they say, opinions vary and have so many variables like speakers, what/how/where you operate, physical hearing anomalies, etc. that audio reviews are just about useless. ----- Chuck, KE9UW -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3S-audio-boa rd-for-K3-upgrade-tp7615346p7615445.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __________________________________________________ ____________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
