I agree with Bill; I ran a Collins S-line for 35 years before entering the 21st century this year with a K3, and people talked about Collins sounding so good-Art Collins was (is) not trying to sound like a broadcast station but wanted to be able to communicate effectively-that's the real purpose of our stations. Just my 2 cents worth, 73, Bob K9ING
-----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of nr4c Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:39 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] more Bass in K3 with PR-40 I really think this thread has been about hams wanting to sound like the announcer on the big time radio station with a million dollar transmitter and a studio. That kind of sound is not really in the realm of amateur communications, nor the budget. We'd need a different license to sound that way. My $0.02 worth.... ...bill nr4c On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:16:29 -0700, eric manning wrote: > Rich said: > > intelligibility is concentrated around 1-2K Hz. Yes? > > I think so. If my failing memory serves, early Bell Labs work found > that > 300 - 3000 Hz was the minimum- width audio band which preserved > intelligibility and allowed the speaker to be recognized. > That became the basis of the A/D converters which in turn fed the > T-series [T-1, T-2 etc] of digital transmission systems for the > telephone network. > On the other hand, much of this thread seems to be about speech > fidelity [Does it sound Great?] as opposed to intelligibility [Can I > copy it?] > > Eric > VA7DZ > > -- > > "Democracy depends on well-informed voters; absent that, it is all mud > flowing down hill." > --Charles Harpole ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
