[TenTec] COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKERS Article

[Jim Brown]

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