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

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