Fellow Elecrafters: I need help with this one. During the entire construction process everything went fine until the very last step; I wired up the internal speaker, powered on and the audio sounded horrible. Very raspy with cw signals having a hollow, high pitched ring to them.
1. Headphones sound fine. 2. External speaker sounds good. 3. Loosening or tightening the speaker screws changes the sound but still distorted. I contacted Gary. He suggested checking speaker installation and external speaker jack wiring. All okay there. I removed the K2 speaker and replaced it with the internal speaker from my K1. It sounds good. So I let Gary know and Scott mailed me a replacement speaker. I wire it up and it sounds the same as the first one. What's going on here? For the last several days I've been checking and rechecking. Everything looks okay. Headphones and external speaker okay. At present I have the K1 speaker back in and it's okay. The K1 is 8 ohm, .5 watt and the external speaker is also 8 ohm. Can this mean something? It does not seem possible to get two bad speakers. Suggestions will be appreciated. Joe K4NVJ K1#764 K2#4155 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
