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August 13th 05, 05:11 PM

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I don't really need to know which is best, but I'd love to liven up the
group a little.

I've researched this question, just out of curiosity, and seem to
detect a vague consensus that the Satellit 700 was probably the best of
the line. I haven't used the Satellit 700, so I can't offer an opinion,
but I'd be curious to know whether others agree or not. The 700s are
always available on ebay, and I have found myself tempted at times.

Steve

I owned a Satellit 500 and loved it even though there was no selectable
sideband sync detector. When the Satellit 700 came out, I got one,
sent it back, and got a second one. I found the Satellit 500 to be
BETTER than the 700, even though the 700 had a selectable sideband sync
detector that, by the way, was flawed, but still worked somewhat. My
500 had much sharper bandwidth filters and much better sound. The wide
filter on the 500 was a bit wider than the 700, resulting in much more
treble sound, but still narrow enough to use most of the time. The
narrow bandwidth on the 500 was MUCH SHARPER than on the 700, yet still
produced reasonable sound without excess distortion. It really cut out
most adjacent station interference. The narrow bandwidth on the 700
was not narrow enough, and therefore, you needed to use the sync
detector. Problem is, the sync detector on the 700 is flawed, and
howled unless you turned the bass control all the way off so the sound
was nothing but treble sounding.

The biggest mistake I made was to sell my 500. It was great. The 700
didn't stay around very long before I got rid of it.

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