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Re: [TenTec] "Sounds Sweet"

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] "Sounds Sweet"
From: "Jerry M Judy" <ke8npjmj@ameritech.net>
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:39:18 -0500
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It is the greatest......KE8NP
----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane A Calvin" <ac5aa@juno.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 10:24 AM
Subject: [TenTec] "Sounds Sweet"


$120 for a speaker in a box?!  Yikes!  I thought the accessory speakers
in pretty cabinets that match the radio were expensive!

       73,  Duane


On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:16:44 -0800 "Ron Castro" <ronc@sonic.net> writes:
I looked up that Sweet Sounds speaker on the Internet, and it looks like a pretty good accessory. Pretty good efficiency, optimized response shaping to eliminate high-end hiss and extraneous junk as well as "boomyness" in the low end. Is it as good as the web page makes it sound?

Ron N6AHA


----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Youngman" <nq5t@comcast.net>
To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] orion with 2.055 firmware -- headphones?


>> The chip is designed to deliver 2.5 Watts into an 8 Ohm load
>> with 13.8 volts power and distortion under 10%.
>> I find that the speakers levels are quite loud using a
>> Kenwood SP-31 for the external speaker, which is a fairly
>> efficient unit.
>
> All this talk about audio "chips" and tiny little speakers, makes me long > for the days when real radios had push-pull 6V6's and "phono" positions on
> the mode switch :-)
>
> Failing that the Sounds Sweet is very efficient, and puts out all the > audio > I've ever wanted from the O. Except for the Icom SP-20, I've never found
> any OEM speaker to be particularly good.
>
> Grant/NQ5T
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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
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