[TenTec] "Sounds Sweet"

[Duane A Calvin]

$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 at 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 at comcast.net>
> To: "'Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment'" <tentec at 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
Austin, Texas