This may be a glass half full response but being an old hearing impaired guy has it's positives:
1. Ignoring XYL when needed and excusing it by pointing to hearing aids. 2. Sleeping like a baby every night with said hearing aids removed. 3. Not hearing any distortion in my K3. Life is good 73, Bill NZ0T Julian, G4ILO wrote: > > The measurements that have been made seem to suggest that the problem is > not regular distortion or clipping. I am wondering if it is some kind of > quantisation effect due to the fact that the signal processing is digital > or analog? I am thinking of the fact that there are people who claim that > vinyl (analog) LPs sound better than CDs, and FM radio sounds better than > DAB. > > Personally I find it hard to understand what the complaints are about. SSB > signals usually have quite a lot of distortion in any case, due to > compression and ALC and the fact that they are transmitted through an > amplifier whose response would certainly not be described as "linear" by > any hi-fi buff, not to mention any multipath distortion effects introduced > by the ionosphere. It's hard to imagine what the K3 could be doing to the > signal to make it sound worse. I just don't expect hi-fi audio when > listening to the ham bands. > > Perhaps the K3 is allowing you to hear the original signal "warts and > all", much as a top-end hi-fi would make recordings that were acceptable > on average equipment sound unpleasant? I do find the K3 audio to have > rather too good a frequency response, and so on mine I have used the RX > equalization to cut the topmost frequency by -16dB and the next one down > by -8dB, which to my ears gives a much more restful sound. > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-Harmonic-Distortion-tp797780p838581.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
