"D Peter Maus" wrote in message
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Michael Lawson wrote:
"Volker Tonn" wrote in message
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Lucky schrieb:


I'm running the audio thru good speakers only 4 or 5 watts but
not

thru the

Line-Out.
I must confess I didn't know about that or forgot. Forgot might
be

more

probable
I haven't used my 525 in months now. I was switching between the

HF-150 and

R75 but lately the R75 and HF3.



Have try to connect the line out with your stereo amp and you will

be

impressed. :-)


I don't suppose that is a nice way to avoid the sound
issues with the IC-R71A??

--Mike L.



Much of the distortion with R71, which can approach 20%, are
related to the four mixers. Sometimes a good sound system at the REC
out can make an improvement, depending on speaker selection, but
often, what a higher definition audio system does, is merely enhance
the audibility of the distortion that's otherwise masked by the
'smearing' of the waveform created by the use of ceramic capacitors
in the audio path. KIWA offers a nice mod for the audio of R71. And
it's reasonably priced. And it DOES clean up the audio path. But the
cleaner audio path only served, in the three units I've heard that
were so modified, to call attention to distortions that were
generated in pre-audio stages. There, currently are no mods to
attenuate those distortions.

How bad is the sound on the R71A, really?? I've had
an R70 in the past, and I didn't think it was that bad
there, but fidelity wise a Drake or the Sat 800 is better.
If it's in the realm of the R70 as far as how bad the sound
is, it's livable.

--Mike L.