On Nov 18, 3:37 pm, Telamon
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The question of decent audio is generally a much debated topic on this
newsgroup. In years gone by I had a very fancy Sony graphic equaliser
that had a marvellous audio spectrum analyser. In that era there was
no doubt that the Kenwood R5000 was tops by a furlong with really
stupendous audio, however it lacked synchronous detection and was thus
superseded by the Drake R8B which was superb, but did not have a wide
audio spectrum like the Kenwood R5000 did.

The R-5000 does indeed have fine audio, and I found that weak DX
signals were made more copyable because of that, in addition to
enhanced enjoyment of local MW and strong SW stations.

After years of doing this and going over recordings post DX
session, I can attest to the fact that very good audio helps a lot in
IDing those very difficult stations, because of their broader audio
spectrum allowing you to hear the full spectrum of audible sound with
sibilants and harmonics that help you decipher that very difficult ID.

Amen!

Here I can truly say that the audio on a wide 3 Khz SSB setting on my
756Pro3 is just awesome

It's great when you find a receiver or general coverage transceiver
with great audio using SSB. The AR-3030 that I owned for a while had
terrific sound from a good bass response to a clear and crisp midrange
and high end, without overdoing any of it. Both music and speech were
better here than any other receiver I've used on SSB.

For me it was finding the right bookshelf speaker and headphones with
good audio range for these radios to sound really good.

I really don't understand why some people think speakers and headphones
that limit the audio response are the way to go for intelligibility as
you are stuck with the limited audio response even when conditions are
good. That is like buying a car that does not have 3rd and 4th gear
because you only use 1st and 2nd to go up hill.

You're right about this. I used to think that my Kenwood HS-4
headphones were the perfect DX cans, limited audio from about 400 to
3000 herz or so, blocking out anything to keep me from IDing a
station. Recently I bought a Kenwood TX that came with a pair of
modified full-range Radio Shack stereo (now mono) headphones that the
owner used with it, much better than the HS-4 in every respect.