Converting electrical power to mechanical power is fraught with peril. One way to get excellent performance from 300 to 3000 Hertz is to have very good performance from 30 to 30,000 Hertz. Or something like that. We want to be in the safely linear portion of the speaker.
That said, I just bought some cheap Pyle speakers (two for $20) and am trying them out. Because hams are cheap. But I really wanted some of the old Radio Shack small two-way speakers. I have one of those on my Lowe HF-150 Europa and it is just fine, thank you. wunder K6WRU Walter Underwood CM87wj http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > On Oct 16, 2016, at 5:17 PM, Dave Cole <d...@nk7z.net> wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-10-16 at 18:28 -0400, Don Wilhelm wrote: >> Bret, >> >> In my opinion, a speaker should not "color" the audio response of the >> receiver. > > Au contraire, the speaker is as much a part of the radio as the > synthesizer, or the APF is. We are not dealing with a high end stereo > here, (where the speakers should never color things, but frequently do), > we are dealing with the terminal end of a communications link, which can > be several thousand miles long, and as such, the speaker is just another > filter/device to reproduce the sound. Filters by nature color things, > hence the speaker must color the sound if we are to use all parts as > efficiently as possible. > > -- > 73's, and thanks, > Dave (NK7Z) > For software/hardware reviews see: > http://www.nk7z.net > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to wun...@wunderwood.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com