FWIW... I find this speaker excellent for use with my Ten-Tec transceivers:
http://www.avantonepro.com/Avantone-Passive-MixCube-Monitors-In-Black.html
They are available either in Active or Passive models, but the Passive
model has excellent efficiency. Avantone specs recommend an audio input
power level at 10 to 200W, but I find it easily driven to shack-filling
volume levels even with a LM380 output stage. Not inexpensive, but
cheaper than most IKYT "aesthetically-matching" speakers.
73
Don W9CW
On 2/27/2013 2:19 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 2/26/2013 10:29 PM, Richards wrote:
YES - the author makes a good case for using something tailored to
the task.
Bullsh&t. What is needed for good speech quality is nothing more or
less than a loudspeaker with flat response AND uniform coverage in the
speech range. And, because many (most?) ham rigs don't have high power
audio output stages, it needs to be fairly efficient. "Tailored to
speech?" Horseh*t. Nothing more or less than a decent small, accurate
loudspeaker that sounds the same over a fairly wide angle.
Now, it so happens that Optimus is the "house brand" that Rat Shack
used in the 70s and 80s. They didn't make anything themselves, but
some of the small speakers they sold under the Optimus name were
pretty decent, and we used them a bit for making noise in rooms to do
acoustic testing. But "optimized for speech?" Zebrash&t.
The reason that loudspeaker he likes sounds good on speech is that
it's a decent "flat" (natural) loudspeaker. .
73, Jim Brown K9YC
Fellow, Audio Engineering Society
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