Have run a succession of shortwave rigs through various hi-fi units for well
over three decades! Yaesu's FRG-7 is the Marantz of solid-state units,
emulating that auld Hammarlund thermionic tone! Really excels on those
Wednesday evening A.M.I. Net broadcasts on 3.870 mhz! Great for Lucky Ocean's
"Planet" via Radio Australia also; as well as Auntie Beeb's musical
presentations! An audio-modded ICOM R-75 produces a nice fat midrange which
sounds luxurious during sports broadcasts! Sony's 2010, through a decent
microphone pre-amp, has a scintilatin' retro-vibe as well !

elg110254 wrote:

Have run a succession of shortwave rigs through various hi-fi units for well
over three decades! Yaesu's FRG-7 is the Marantz of solid-state units,
emulating that auld Hammarlund thermionic tone! Really excels on those
Wednesday evening A.M.I. Net broadcasts on 3.870 mhz! Great for Lucky Ocean's
"Planet" via Radio Australia also; as well as Auntie Beeb's musical
presentations! An audio-modded ICOM R-75 produces a nice fat midrange which
sounds luxurious during sports broadcasts! Sony's 2010, through a decent
microphone pre-amp, has a scintilatin' retro-vibe as well !

The Drake-R8B audio would be a Harmon-Kardon vacuum tube model. :-)


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My Dx-398 sounds a lot better through my set of Sony powered speakers(intended
for a walkman cd player).

I can imagine a good hi-fi stereo would be even better.

jt

Have run a succession of shortwave rigs through various hi-fi units for
well
over three decades! Yaesu's FRG-7 is the Marantz of solid-state units,
emulating that auld Hammarlund thermionic tone! Really excels on those
Wednesday evening A.M.I. Net broadcasts on 3.870 mhz! Great for Lucky
Ocean's
"Planet" via Radio Australia also; as well as Auntie Beeb's musical
presentations! An audio-modded ICOM R-75 produces a nice fat midrange which
sounds luxurious during sports broadcasts! Sony's 2010, through a decent
microphone pre-amp, has a scintilatin' retro-vibe as well !

The Drake-R8B audio would be a Harmon-Kardon vacuum tube model. :-)


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my DX398 has a lot of hiss through the headphones and line out.
Compare it to say, a Walkman - Sony is clear as a bell. My opinion,
and think about this for a second - any radio that has a speaker has
hiss on the line out or phones - without a speaker - like a Walkman or
IPOD, etc.. no hiss and sounds beautiful.

Regards

On 25 Dec 2003 00:25:59 GMT, ospam (Jmpngtiger)
wrote:

My Dx-398 sounds a lot better through my set of Sony powered speakers(intended
for a walkman cd player).

I can imagine a good hi-fi stereo would be even better.

jt

Have run a succession of shortwave rigs through various hi-fi units for
well
over three decades! Yaesu's FRG-7 is the Marantz of solid-state units,
emulating that auld Hammarlund thermionic tone! Really excels on those
Wednesday evening A.M.I. Net broadcasts on 3.870 mhz! Great for Lucky
Ocean's
"Planet" via Radio Australia also; as well as Auntie Beeb's musical
presentations! An audio-modded ICOM R-75 produces a nice fat midrange which
sounds luxurious during sports broadcasts! Sony's 2010, through a decent
microphone pre-amp, has a scintilatin' retro-vibe as well !

The Drake-R8B audio would be a Harmon-Kardon vacuum tube model. :-)


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Along the same lines, I have a Sangean RS-330 (formerly Proton clock radio)
that has a lot of hiss noticeable when using headphones also. This a fairly
expensive radio, and works very well but I have noticed the hiss issue. If
I'm not mistaken, you can hear the hiss even before you turn on the radio if
you plug in the headphones and listen! On the other hand I have a Sangean
DT110 pocket radio that has virtually no backround hiss in the phones.

- mike w

"Ken Thomas" wrote in message
...
my DX398 has a lot of hiss through the headphones and line out.
Compare it to say, a Walkman - Sony is clear as a bell. My opinion,
and think about this for a second - any radio that has a speaker has
hiss on the line out or phones - without a speaker - like a Walkman or
IPOD, etc.. no hiss and sounds beautiful.

Regards

On 25 Dec 2003 00:25:59 GMT, ospam (Jmpngtiger)
wrote:

My Dx-398 sounds a lot better through my set of Sony powered
speakers(intended
for a walkman cd player).

I can imagine a good hi-fi stereo would be even better.

jt

Have run a succession of shortwave rigs through various hi-fi units
for
well
over three decades! Yaesu's FRG-7 is the Marantz of solid-state units,
emulating that auld Hammarlund thermionic tone! Really excels on those
Wednesday evening A.M.I. Net broadcasts on 3.870 mhz! Great for Lucky
Ocean's
"Planet" via Radio Australia also; as well as Auntie Beeb's musical
presentations! An audio-modded ICOM R-75 produces a nice fat midrange
which
sounds luxurious during sports broadcasts! Sony's 2010, through a
decent
microphone pre-amp, has a scintilatin' retro-vibe as well !

The Drake-R8B audio would be a Harmon-Kardon vacuum tube model. :-)


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Ken Thomas wrote in message . ..
my DX398 has a lot of hiss through the headphones and line out.
Compare it to say, a Walkman - Sony is clear as a bell. My opinion,
and think about this for a second - any radio that has a speaker has
hiss on the line out or phones - without a speaker - like a Walkman or
IPOD, etc.. no hiss and sounds beautiful.


Must be a design problem with that particular radio. All my radio's
have both speakers and headphone jacks. Well....Let me take that back,
the drake R4 uses an outboard speaker, but it still uses a speaker
out, and also a headphone jack.
Most of mine have no real hiss at all. My older tube types probably
have the most, but it's not enough to override the audio once it's
turned up to a usable level. My newer solid state radios have very
little. At the moment, I have two radios on. A IC-706mk2g, and a
TS-830. I just did a test using the phones. I could detect no
noticable hiss whatsoever. Having a speaker will not effect whether a
radio has hiss in the audio circuit. This is a audio circuit design
problem. Probably stemming from cutting corners to make a lower price
radio. You gets whats ya pay for....Also, comparing walkmans and ipods
to a shortwave radio is kind of like apples and oranges. The walkmans
have cleaner audio designs because they are designed for music and
they know music listeners are very picky. Requires a clean, wide range
amp. The lower priced shortwave radios don't have near the quality of
audio amps the walkmans do. They recognise that most "average" users
wouldn't hear the difference anyway when listening to broadcasts that
barely even utilize half the audio spectrum a walkman does. "20-20,000
hz" or whatever...As far as your "hiss", it's likely just the results
of a fairly cheap and simple audio amp, or poor circuit layout,
decoupling, design, whatever.... Common in many portables. If they put
more money in the audio amp, they would have to cut something else to
keep the same price..IE: BFO, digital readout, or whatever. My radios
don't hiss cuz they cost quite a bit more than a dx-398, and have
better and quieter audio circuit designs. Maybe blunt, but tis the
real reason...:/ You gets whats ya pay for. MK