I've also considered that theory. It would be interesting (and easy with an external audio mixer) to add a little pink noise to the audio output to see if that "mellows" the sound a bit.
73 -- Joe KB8AP On Jan 8, 2010, at 6:05 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > So my supposition is that we are not accustomed to hearing an "ideal" > filter response - we are accustomed to hearing that tapered response, > and as a result the K3 is judged to be "noisy", when in fact, it is > very > quiet for out of passband response and is faithfully reproducing the > in-passband response that is actually present. We may not like to > hear > what is actually present, but in my mind, the K3 is faithful in > re-producing it without distortion - that in my mind is the definition > of a High Fidelity receiver. > > 73, > Don W3FPR ______________________________________________________________ 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