[TenTec] COMMUNICATIONS SPEAKERS Article

[Cecil]

Well you certainly seem to have a handle on things related to sh&t.....doesn't really add any value to the discussion though....

Cecil
K5DL

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On Feb 27, 2013, at 2:19 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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