There is an old rule that the product of the lowest and highest audio frequencies should be between 450,000 and 500,000 (depending on which ‘expert’ you ask). Under that rule, a 3 KHz audio response should have a low end response of 150 Hertz for a balanced sound.
Sent from my iPad > On Mar 2, 2020, at 8:02 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why is it we are always prone to boost or add something? Ever thought of > taking away something? With most EQ systems, attenuation excessive energy > is much preferable to boosting anything. > > So if ones audio is bassy or muddy, do we add high end or reduce low end? > Hint: it is not adding high end. Jim, K9YC, has written much on this > topic. If in doubt, always attenuate first. > > If the glass is full of wine and one desires more wine, what's the choice? > Surely one can't add more wine or the glass will overflow. Then the > solution is to take a drink of wine, thus reduce the amount of wine in the > glass. Same for boosting in audio. The system has a point where it is full > and will overflow. It won't get better, but it will get worse. > > 73 > > Bob, K4TAX > >> On 3/2/2020 2:10 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: >> When a user cranks up the low frequency audio EQ on those >> rigs and then uses high level of audio processing the >> unfiltered (as in after the DSP/IF filter) PA chain > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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]
