K3 AFX effect

[IK4YNG]

Hi all,
i'm still familiarizing with my K3. I tried AFX on all the possible settings.
While i do appreciate very well the pseudo-stereo effect, i don't see any real difference when i choose the IQ or "bin" effect. From what i has read on QST, it should disseminate the stations across a space in front of you; the listener then will have an easier job in discriminating them, due to the spatial differentiation thet is easier to appreciate than the frequency alone.
The problem is, when i switch AFX on on Bin, and there are several stations in the passband, i don't hear any spatial dissemination. The "delay 5" effect in very well appreciated, instead, so my headphones are working as expected (and my brains too.... hi hi)
does anybody have some explanation for me?

73,
IK4YNG Paolo, K3#517

[Roelof Bakker]

Hello Paolo,

Though I don't own a K3, I am familiar with similar effects.
The human brain is a self learning device and it takes some time before your
brain has learned to use the benefits offered by AFX. Someone else mentioned
this alreay here.
In an other niche of the radio hobby I am using narrow audio filters with a
bandwidth of 12 and 6 Hz. Yes, that is correct: a bandwidth of 6 Hz. It took
approximately 4 hours of extensive listening before my brain had adopted to
it.

73,
Roelof Bakker, pa0rdt
K2 # 6170


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[Barry N1EU]

IK4YNG wrote

While i do appreciate very well the pseudo-stereo effect, i don't see any real difference when i choose the IQ or "bin" effect. From what i has read on QST, it should disseminate the stations across a space in front of you; the listener then will have an easier job in discriminating them, due to the spatial differentiation thet is easier to appreciate than the frequency alone.
The problem is, when i switch AFX on on Bin, and there are several stations in the passband, i don't hear any spatial dissemination. The "delay 5" effect in very well appreciated, instead, so my headphones are working as expected (and my brains too.... hi hi)
does anybody have some explanation for me?

Using a wider bandwidth setting and a higher sidetone pitch should make the AFX BIN effect more noticeable.  You should hear lower tones displaced toward the R headphone and higher tones displaced toward the L headphone.  

73,
Barry N1EU