[TenTec] COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKERS Article

[Barry N1EU]

Rick, I believe the Minimus 7 may be the same speaker as long as the
enclosure is ported with a 4 inch woofer and 1 inch dome tweeter.

73,
Barry N1EU

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP <Rick at dj0ip.de> wrote:

> Barry, Jim,
>
> I have a pair of Rat Shack Minimus-7 (label says Realistic).
> I don't know if it is from the same company you guys are referring to or
> not.
> The audio quality not bad.  Do you guys know it?
> How does it compare to the ones you are referring to?
>
> BTW, having two identical speakers is great for comparing two radios.
> I used these when comparing my Eagle and my K3.
> I even swapped them after a couple of days, just to be sure it wasn't the
> speaker.
> The Eagle won on audio quality; wasn't even close.
>
> 73
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry
> N1EU
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 9:57 AM
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKERS Article
>
> I couldn't agree more with Jim's comments.  If you want to tailor the
> sound,
> do it in the electronics, not in the speaker.  The speaker should be an
> accurate transducer.
>
> And I love my little RCA/Radio Shack/Optimus speakers (Pro-X44AV)!
>
> 73,
> Barry N1EU
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Jim Brown
> <k9yc at audiosystemsgroup.com>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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