I use TX equalisation with my K3 to improve on my deep gravelly voice.
It sounds far better than my TS-480 with a similar microphone on both
transceivers (Kenwood MC-43S on the K3, stock mic on the '480), the
TS-480 has limited equalisation on TX but even with that it's well below
the quality of the K3 audio which sounds to my ears close to as good as
it's going to get from my voice. Unsolicited reports on the quality of
my K3 TX audio are commonplace and I've never received reports such as
those at any time in my 37 years of operating... I don't think there is
anything wrong with the K3 TX audio.
On receive the only "quality" receiver I have for comparison is a Drake
R4A and the K3 sounds better than that, and the R4A isn't at all
unpleasant to listen to... The Drake meets specification and has new
smoothing capacitors... The K3 receiver has an open sound which can
sound harsh when combined with a lot of background hash in the form of
white noise from a typical domestic situation where you are surrounded
by houses with computers, switched mode PSUs, etc. Under clean band
conditions that openness sounds great when listening to SSB with the
same DSP bandwidth as the roofing filter (2.8 KHz in my case). I use no
equalisation on receive.
Bottom line to me is the K3's audio is fine. And no, I'm not on
commission from Elecraft!
73 Dave, G4AON
K3/100 #80
"Wouldn't something like this be affected by equalization?"
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