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S Sacco

Potentially Excellent External Speakers...

This caught my eye the other day, as a potentially excellent external speaker for my K3: <http://www.bose.com/controller?event=DTC_LINKS_TARGET_EVENT&DTCLinkID=7585&src=CMM>

No chance I'll be buying it anytime soon, at THAT price.

73,
Steve NN4X

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Bob-270

Re: Potentially Excellent External Speakers...

Here is my favorite do it all external speaker:

http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/pro_products/6301b.shtml

A new pair would be less than the Bose units. However this design has stood the test of time
having been on the market for 25 years. There are a lot of them out there and because of that
they show on E-Bay quite often, and for cheap to reasonable prices.

The down side is they will not "improve" what you are listening to. They will give a faithful
reproduction of a horrible source. K2's and 3's are not in that category though.

73,
Bob
K2TK

S Sacco wrote:

This caught my eye the other day, as a potentially excellent external speaker for my K3: <http://www.bose.com/controller?event=DTC_LINKS_TARGET_EVENT&DTCLinkID=7585&src=CMM>

No chance I'll be buying it anytime soon, at THAT price.

73,
Steve NN4X
  

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Joe Subich, W4TV-3

RE: Potentially Excellent External Speakers...

The Fostex 6301B is an outstanding monitor - I spec'd and used
a lot of them in my professional life. However, $175 +/- each
new and $150/pr used on eBAY makes them serious overkill for
the K3.

A pair of KLH S-PRO4 satellite speakers ($40/pr. at Radio Shack),
or the Insignia IS-SP3WAY ($32/pr at BestBuy.com) are excellent
choices at lower cost than the Radio Shack equivalent of the
Motorola/Midland/etc. "communications speaker."

73,

... Joe, W4TV

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email]
> [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Bob
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 3:05 PM
> To: S Sacco; Elecraft
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Potentially Excellent External Speakers...
>
>
> Here is my favorite do it all external speaker:
>
> http://www.fostexinternational.com/docs/pro_products/6301b.shtml
>
> A new pair would be less than the Bose units. However this
> design has stood the test of time
> having been on the market for 25 years. There are a lot of
> them out there and because of that
> they show on E-Bay quite often, and for cheap to reasonable prices.
>
> The down side is they will not "improve" what you are
> listening to. They will give a faithful
> reproduction of a horrible source. K2's and 3's are not in
> that category though.
>
> 73,
> Bob
> K2TK
>
>
> S Sacco wrote:
>
> This caught my eye the other day, as a potentially excellent
> external speaker for my K3:
> <http://www.bose.com/controller?event=DTC_LINKS_TARGET_EVENT&D

TCLinkID=7585&src=CMM>

No chance I'll be buying it anytime soon, at THAT price.

73,
Steve NN4X

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Adam Koczarski

RE: Potentially Excellent External Speakers...

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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of S Sacco
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 11:01 AM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: [Elecraft] Potentially Excellent External Speakers...

This caught my eye the other day, as a potentially excellent external speaker for my K3: <http://www.bose.com/controller?event=DTC_LINKS_TARGET_EVENT&DTCLinkID=7585&src=CMM>

No chance I'll be buying it anytime soon, at THAT price.

I have a set of their 3 speaker system (includes a sub woofer), attached to a Logitech Duet streaming audio system. We use it in the bedroom to access our 40,000 track mp3 collection there. They do sound pretty good! Maybe I’ll need to <borrow> them for some testing when the K3 is completed.

Adam – ka7ark

Grant Youngman

Re: Potentially Excellent External Speakers...

In reply to this post by S Sacco

I was in a Bose store over the weekend, saw these, and hit the "listen" button on the PC. I was absolutely blown away by how good they sounded (and how high they are priced) given their VERY small size. Quite remarkable, especially considering this is not a system with a subwoofer. I think they actually sounded far better than most PC speaker systems with a sub. I may have to save some pennies :)

Whether they'd make a good "communications" speaker is another thing altogether ....

Grant/NQ5T

On Dec 1, 2008, at 11:00 AM, S Sacco wrote:

This caught my eye the other day, as a potentially excellent external speaker for my K3: <http://www.bose.com/controller?event=DTC_LINKS_TARGET_EVENT&DTCLinkID=7585&src=CMM>

No chance I'll be buying it anytime soon, at THAT price.

73,
Steve NN4X

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