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Shortwave through a Stereo
I hooked up a DJ mixer to my stereo yesterday so i could listen to
vinyl & cds on it. I plugged my ICOM R75 into one of the unused channels (via LINE OUT) and brought it up & it sounds great! (in that shortwavy noisy way) It seems like both the audio frequency response & dynamic range are greatly increased compared to headphones(good sonys) and especially the internal speaker. The stereo is a Technics SU-V26 & Cerwin Vega E310's if that matters to anyone. So if your radio is near your stereo give it a go. Now i need a good recorder (& the other turntable). I cant wait to hear some good music on the pirate stations.... we'll see tonight hopefully. ok folks bye -Justin keepin it cloudy in SW Fla....... |
I have a Sony FM/AM tuner in my stereo and it also has SW bands in it. I've
had it since 1986. Don't know if you can still get them. Quite decent for loud broadcasters (BBC, etc), but no SSB of course). C. "J. Tozzo" wrote in message om... I hooked up a DJ mixer to my stereo yesterday so i could listen to vinyl & cds on it. I plugged my ICOM R75 into one of the unused channels (via LINE OUT) and brought it up & it sounds great! (in that shortwavy noisy way) It seems like both the audio frequency response & dynamic range are greatly increased compared to headphones(good sonys) and especially the internal speaker. The stereo is a Technics SU-V26 & Cerwin Vega E310's if that matters to anyone. So if your radio is near your stereo give it a go. Now i need a good recorder (& the other turntable). I cant wait to hear some good music on the pirate stations.... we'll see tonight hopefully. ok folks bye -Justin keepin it cloudy in SW Fla....... |
Yes, i also often listen to sw that way, some sw radios have that beefie
sound you are talking about. often old tube ones, but puting it tru the stereo is far the best way.. -- Greetings from Alfred Zoer ( Alfa Lima Int ) ------------------------------------- Our email address Surf to Alfa Lima web You'll find our Hobby's Chevy's Motor Bikes 11 MB DXing And of course Short-wave Pirate Radio http://www.alfalima.net _____________________________________ SW pirates group!!! Receive the latest SW-Pirates info Simply subscribe by sending a blanc email to: More info at: http://www.egroups.com/group/SWpirates _____________________________________ The group on internet related to building and repairing your own transmitters and radio's. join up!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/The_Ra...r_Electronics/ _____________________________________ Big Twins Motorbikes group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/big-twins-motorcycles "J. Tozzo" schreef in bericht om... I hooked up a DJ mixer to my stereo yesterday so i could listen to vinyl & cds on it. I plugged my ICOM R75 into one of the unused channels (via LINE OUT) and brought it up & it sounds great! (in that shortwavy noisy way) It seems like both the audio frequency response & dynamic range are greatly increased compared to headphones(good sonys) and especially the internal speaker. The stereo is a Technics SU-V26 & Cerwin Vega E310's if that matters to anyone. So if your radio is near your stereo give it a go. Now i need a good recorder (& the other turntable). I cant wait to hear some good music on the pirate stations.... we'll see tonight hopefully. ok folks bye -Justin keepin it cloudy in SW Fla....... |
"J. Tozzo" wrote:
I hooked up a DJ mixer to my stereo yesterday so i could listen to vinyl & cds on it. I plugged my ICOM R75 into one of the unused channels (via LINE OUT) and brought it up & it sounds great! (in that shortwavy noisy way) It seems like both the audio frequency response & dynamic range are greatly increased compared to headphones(good sonys) and especially the internal speaker. The stereo is a Technics SU-V26 & Cerwin Vega E310's if that matters to anyone. So if your radio is near your stereo give it a go. Now i need a good recorder (& the other turntable). I cant wait to hear some good music on the pirate stations.... we'll see tonight hopefully. ok folks bye -Justin keepin it cloudy in SW Fla....... It works particularly well if the stereo has an equalizer (instead of tone controls) so you can tailor the sound across the audio spectrum for shortwave reception. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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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. :-) -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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. :-) -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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. :-) -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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 |
JT,
Getting the "Best Sound" out of your World-Band Radio GoTo= http://www.redbird.net/n8ku/sound.htm Some Highlights on this webpage by N8KU : * Luckily, AM (SW) Radio is by nature not too demanding in the areas of low bass or high treble. * The AM (SW) Frequency Spectrum that you are likely to coax out of even the best shortwave receivers extends only from about 100 Hz to perhaps 5 or 6 KHz. * What you will get from AM (SW) is the "slam" of realistic dynamic range. * Musical programs on the stronger stations such as the BBC or Radio Nederland sound just incredible. * Talk about "feeling the music!" * And as a bonus, I can listen to local AM Stations for more consistent musical programming. * But even for news and talk shows, a professional 12" Woofer raises the intelligibility to a level you won't believe. hsts ~ RHF = = = How Sweet the Sound! joy, Joy. JOY ! .. .. = = = (J. Tozzo) = = = wrote in message . com... I hooked up a DJ mixer to my stereo yesterday so i could listen to vinyl & cds on it. I plugged my ICOM R75 into one of the unused channels (via LINE OUT) and brought it up & it sounds great! (in that shortwavy noisy way) It seems like both the audio frequency response & dynamic range are greatly increased compared to headphones (good sonys) and especially the internal speaker. The stereo is a Technics SU-V26 & Cerwin Vega E310's if that matters to anyone. So if your radio is near your stereo give it a go. Now i need a good recorder (& the other turntable). I cant wait to hear some good music on the pirate stations.... we'll see tonight hopefully. ok folks bye - - - Justin keepin it cloudy in SW Fla....... .. |
I have tested several radios i have:
MY portable radios get nice signals but with high background noises -Two of them (Chibo 999) with broad pasband gete a nice audio . -One fully trransistorized BOLONG gets also marvelous FM audio to very pealsant near 'HiFI' audio -ICOM R75 goes well , Not a so gerat sound as form its speaker -Lowe HF150 gets beter audio You can read reviewsof several KChibo radios and Bolong in this file in my web page www.geocities.com/zliangas/kchibo.pdf Zacharias Liangas ----------- JT, Getting the "Best Sound" out of your World-Band Radio GoTo= http://www.redbird.net/n8ku/sound.htm Some Highlights on this webpage by N8KU : * Luckily, AM (SW) Radio is by nature not too demanding in the areas of low bass or high treble. * The AM (SW) Frequency Spectrum that you are likely to coax out of even the best shortwave receivers extends only from about 100 Hz to perhaps 5 or 6 KHz. * What you will get from AM (SW) is the "slam" of realistic dynamic range. * Musical programs on the stronger stations such as the BBC or Radio Nederland sound just incredible. * Talk about "feeling the music!" * And as a bonus, I can listen to local AM Stations for more consistent musical programming. * But even for news and talk shows, a professional 12" Woofer raises the intelligibility to a level you won't believe. hsts ~ RHF = = = How Sweet the Sound! joy, Joy. JOY ! .. .. = = = (J. Tozzo) = = = wrote in message . com... I hooked up a DJ mixer to my stereo yesterday so i could listen to vinyl & cds on it. I plugged my ICOM R75 into one of the unused channels (via LINE OUT) and brought it up & it sounds great! (in that shortwavy noisy way) It seems like both the audio frequency response & dynamic range are greatly increased compared to headphones (good sonys) and especially the internal speaker. The stereo is a Technics SU-V26 & Cerwin Vega E310's if that matters to anyone. So if your radio is near your stereo give it a go. Now i need a good recorder (& the other turntable). I cant wait to hear some good music on the pirate stations.... we'll see tonight hopefully. ok folks bye - - - Justin keepin it cloudy in SW Fla....... .. |
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