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hay Steve--
just got home this AM, so, kinda behind in the posts.
none of my business, but, saw your R8B on ebay? you doing an upgrade? or did you find something better? like i said, n.o.m.b.- but, if YOU found something you think is a better radio, I for one would like to know what it is. i'm looking for the final up grade here before i retire. if i wait till after i retire, i may not want to spend the money... Drifter... |
Drifter wrote: just got home this AM, so, kinda behind in the posts. none of my business, but, saw your R8B on ebay? you doing an upgrade? or did you find something better? like i said, n.o.m.b.- but, if YOU found something you think is a better radio, I for one would like to know what it is. i'm looking for the final up grade here before i retire. if i wait till after i retire, i may not want to spend the money... Drifter... Nothing better, I simply have 2 R8B's so I'm selling one of them. Still will have an R7, R8 and a R8B. Though I suppose I really should sell the R8 vs. the R8B. Something to ponder this weekend I suppose! dxAce |
had me worried there for a min. ya know i'm gonna
get the R8B. just gotta order it. have a good day... Drifter... |
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wrote: had me worried there for a min. ya know i'm gonna get the R8B. just gotta order it. have a good day... Drifter... The Drake R8B is a great radio, you will love it. Be sure to hook it up to a quality bookshelf speaker for excellent audio. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
Telamon wrote: In article , Drifter wrote: had me worried there for a min. ya know i'm gonna get the R8B. just gotta order it. have a good day... Drifter... The Drake R8B is a great radio, you will love it. Be sure to hook it up to a quality bookshelf speaker for excellent audio. I use the Drake MS-4 speakers here, nice 5 x 7 communication type speakers and about 4 ohms, which matches the R8 series output impedence. dxAce |
dxAce wrote in message ... I use the Drake MS-4 speakers here, nice 5 x 7 communication type speakers and about 4 ohms, which matches the R8 series output impedence. dxAce I, like the Ace use the "communications " type of speaker here. In my case the Icom SP-20. I have tried bunches of speakers & always come back to one that is fairly narrow in freq response. I don't have test gear but 200 hz - 9000 hz sounds about right. I hate boomy bassy so called "Broadcast Quality" audio that most stations seem to want to broadcast nowadays so a high pass filter with a steep rolloff at 300 hz is my choice. BTW the R8B would make a fine choice . IMHO 73, Ken |
Ken Wilson wrote: dxAce wrote in message ... I use the Drake MS-4 speakers here, nice 5 x 7 communication type speakers and about 4 ohms, which matches the R8 series output impedence. dxAce I, like the Ace use the "communications " type of speaker here. In my case the Icom SP-20. I have tried bunches of speakers & always come back to one that is fairly narrow in freq response. I don't have test gear but 200 hz - 9000 hz sounds about right. I hate boomy bassy so called "Broadcast Quality" audio that most stations seem to want to broadcast nowadays so a high pass filter with a steep rolloff at 300 hz is my choice. BTW the R8B would make a fine choice . IMHO Now that I think about it, I did use a Radio Shack Minimus-7 with my R5000. It sounded pretty good. The Minimus-7 is a small 8 ohm, 2-way speaker in a metal case. Still have the Minimus-7, but not the R5000. The R5000 had pretty impressive audio as far as I was concerned, and is a decent SW receiver. I did get a better 6 kHz filter for it though, as it seemed that the stock 6 kHz filter had pretty broad skirts. dxAce |
every review i have read on the R8B suggest a better
speaker. i have looked at comp speakers. and that rather high priced commo speaker someone posted about a while back. i "guess" a bassey type would be better? wish i could try a few before i buy. have to look at book shelf types... Drifter... BTW, Telamon, i see you also have the AOR7030+. do you have a favorite radio??? |
In article , Drifter
wrote: every review i have read on the R8B suggest a better speaker. i have looked at comp speakers. and that rather high priced commo speaker someone posted about a while back. i "guess" a bassey type would be better? wish i could try a few before i buy. have to look at book shelf types... Drifter... BTW, Telamon, i see you also have the AOR7030+. do you have a favorite radio??? That is because the internal speaker is only OK. The radio will sound better with an outboard speaker or headphones. I am a program listener so I want the full range of audio the radio can produce so I go with a full range bookshelf speaker and headphones. If you want to chase faint DX you may want limited, response speakers that will help you discern voice on weak signals. If you chase the faint signals go with the headphones. Whichever way you decide, go to an electronic store that has the speakers in a display sound room. A selection switch in a sound display room will allow you to compare how the different speakers sound. I have three tabletop receivers Drake R8B, Ten-Tec RX-340, and AOR 7030+. I like them all but the all round favorite is the Drake. I wound not sell any of them except under dire circumstances. All three sound better with outboard speakers. I may not be the norm but I try to get the most I can out the antenna radio combination so I can turn up the volume. This only sounds good with strong signals that have little background static. Most days during normal conditions on the west coast, I can do this with the major broadcasters. I can crank up the volume as loud as I want because they all sound like local broadcasters. On the 340 I just open up the bandwidth. On the Drake and AOR I swing the IF shift to one sideband to get the high end audio. All three radios have great audio. -- Telamon Ventura, California |
i'm learning here every day. have the sat800; i will
use for the major broadcasters. got 4 sets of head phones, mostly older types. i want the Drake speaker; looks so cool as a set. i want the R8B to chase DX. so, the head- phones will get a workout. maybe try some new/ even cordless and hear what i like best. i get a real kick when Ace and the group report the rare finds. got a high freq. hearing loss, so, phones it is. now i'm really looking forward to my retir- ment. all the years i carried a portable to catch a-bit here and there will be over. thanks to you all, i now have 2 good longwires(e-w/n-s). a great radio on the way. now i just count down the days. thanks guys... Drifter... |
Drifter wrote: i'm learning here every day. have the sat800; i will use for the major broadcasters. got 4 sets of head phones, mostly older types. i want the Drake speaker; looks so cool as a set. i want the R8B to chase DX. so, the head- phones will get a workout. maybe try some new/ even cordless and hear what i like best. i get a real kick when Ace and the group report the rare finds. got a high freq. hearing loss, so, phones it is. now i'm really looking forward to my retir- ment. all the years i carried a portable to catch a-bit here and there will be over. thanks to you all, i now have 2 good longwires(e-w/n-s). a great radio on the way. now i just count down the days. thanks guys... Drifter... I'd pass on that MS8 speaker if I were you. Yes, it does look nice as a set, much like the MS7 speaker looks nice as a set with the R7. Forget it... either get a MS-4 or find something else. Neither one is worthy of the set(s). Been there, done that... do have a Drake t-shirt! dxAce |
got one last hamfest in WPA 9/12 at Butler. see what
i can find there. at the spring fest there was a guy with a complete R7 station. by the time i got through the gang around his table, another guy was packing it up. looked like a ten out of ten. i collect T-shirts. love to have a Drake shirt... Drifter... |
Drifter wrote: got one last hamfest in WPA 9/12 at Butler. see what i can find there. at the spring fest there was a guy with a complete R7 station. by the time i got through the gang around his table, another guy was packing it up. looked like a ten out of ten. i collect T-shirts. love to have a Drake shirt... Contact BFrost AT rldrake.com about the t-shirt. I was talking to him the other day, they are stilll available. I may just order a few more myself. dxAce |
thank you much...
Drifter... |
Drifter wrote: thank you much... Drifter... You're quite welcome. Good luck in your DX'ing hobby. 73, dxAce |
Telamon wrote:
That is because the internal speaker is only OK. The radio will sound better with an outboard speaker or headphones. Not aimed at you, just a general rant: Audio is nice, but why is it that the same people who complain about less-than-audiophile-quality audio in shortwave receivers seem to coincide with the people who complain about big receivers? It seems like people are expecting a one-ounce, three-inch, fifty-watt speaker with perfectly flat response from 10 to 100,000 Hz, and a fifty-watt amplifier that nurses two AAA batteries for thirty weeks. Really, how many radios do NOT give reasonably good audio through headphones, or through an external amplifier/speaker, *especially* those with synchronous detection? -- Both Kerry and Edwards announced their candidacy near the beginning of September, 2003, so let's only count votes before then. From January, 2003, to August, 2003, Senator Edwards didn't vote 69 out of 320 opportunities (~22%) and Senator Kerry didn't vote 182 out of 320 opportunities (~57%). http://www.mwilliams.info/archives/001349.php |
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