[TenTec] COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKERS Article

[Don Allen]

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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