"I'm coming at this from the perspective of an audio professional and a radio professional. I'm a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, passed my First Phone in 1959 and began working in broadcasting soon thereafter. For the last 20+ years, I've made my living designing sound systems for public spaces" WOW ! I am impressed,so you are the professional audio "GURU" in this group,we are honored to have you here.WOW!! AD4C
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits". -- Albert Einstein --- On Mon, 9/21/09, Jim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jim Brown <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] K3 Audio Response - Version 3.33 Firmware To: "Elecraft List" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, September 21, 2009, 8:16 PM On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:03:02 -0500, Grant Youngman wrote: >Indeed. It may cut through better, but if you can't understand what's >being said, what good does "cutting through" do. By "cutting through" I am specifically talking about speech intelligibility, and thanks to my background in pro audio and sound reinforcement, it is a topic I know quite a bit about. Sound systems that must provide speech intelligibility in difficult environments are carefully designed to limit the low frequency response. Three reasons. First, the lower octave bands make very little contribution to speech intelligibility. Second, the lower octave bands are most subject to the effects of reverberation. Third, the lower octave bands burn power that could be better used on the spectrum that does provide intelligibility. The only part of the above that doesn't apply directly to radio communications is reverberation. Note that no one is recommending excessive modulation or processing, which certainly does degrade intelligibility. The K3 can very easily be set up to limit the audio bandwidth, shape it to provide pre-emphasis for the bandwidth lost due to IF filters, and provide dynamics processing (compression). And it sounds VERY good when done properly. I'm coming at this from the perspective of an audio professional and a radio professional. I'm a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, passed my First Phone in 1959 and began working in broadcasting soon thereafter. For the last 20+ years, I've made my living designing sound systems for public spaces. 73, Jim Brown 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
