Guys your leaving in the speaker which makes some radios sound
terrible. Do this: Get your best earphones and plug them in and listen
to quality. My AT Sprint 3 which has good audio sounds clean and clear
on good signals like WWV when they are not modulated.
I had a Drake 2B and it was the very first good receiver I ever
owned. Right now I will put my Yaesu FT-857D receiver up against any
comers. But with earphones not the crummy 2" speaker...hi
73 Karl
Darrell Bellerive wrote:
I find the same thing with my K2. I originally thought that something may be
wrong, but listening to the same CW signals on a Heathkit SW-7800 are even
worse.
I suspect that what we are hearing is simply the solid state audio section. I
could be wrong but I don't think that audiophiles are falling over themselves
trying to buy audio amps with LM380 and LM386 integrated circuits.
The fact that the odd CW signal sounds perfect is confusing. I am experiencing
the same thing.
Be interesting to pipe the audio from the detector into a HiFi tube amp.
Darrell VA7TO K2#5093
On August 20, 2006 01:48 pm, Mike Harris wrote:
<quote>
Bad: The tone of the 2B is noticeably smoother and purer than the K2.
The K2, while it has a good S/N ratio, has a bit of a hollow tone and a
bit of a raspy or bearly edgey CW tone. The 2B is very pure sine wave.
Very mellow, very nice to listen to.
<unquote>
This has troubled me for quite a while. Sometimes all CW sigs seem to
have a harsh tone and then you tune into another station that is a pure
note, very odd. Also the chirpy signals seem to be a nice note, albeit
varying. I'm beginning to wonder if there is a harsh note built into some
of the modern synth rigs. SSB sounds OK.
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