Have you tried deeper circumaural headphones? They leave more room for hearing aids, if you want to try using both at once.
73, Julie On Mon, Feb 16, 2026 at 7:09 PM Phil Hystad via Elecraft < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Jim (and, others who answered), I expected as much. > > Right now headphones are OK but a hassle with hearing aids that I need to > take off first. The speaker from the KX3 is OK too but not the best audio > quality but then again, hams usually don’t care for audio quality that > much, as long as it is clear is my desire — then again, I am mostly CW > anyway. > > phil > > > On Feb 16, 2026, at 3:44 PM, Jim Brown via Elecraft < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 2/16/2026 3:15 PM, Phil Hystad via Elecraft wrote: > >> Can someone give pointers on this? > > > > The K3, K3S, and K4 have separate audio power amplifiers for headphones > and speakers, each with their own individual output jacks. I haven't > studied the schematic, but I suspect that the KX3 has only the amplifiers > for headphones. Speakers require considerably more power. > > > > The headphone output could probably drive a powered speaker (that is, > one with its own built-in amplifier), but powered speakers are notoriously > bad for RFI, both generating noise and being susceptible to nearby > transmitters, so are unlikely to be a solution. > > > > 73, Jim K9YC > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
