Mike,
I fully understand, some people do not understand how  cochlear implants
work. They process  and make it close to the original sound.
My friend, CAleene has cochlear implants and she told me sometimes voices
sound  like a Donald duck and she goes in for some sort of adjustment.
What transceiver did you have before the ts-590 sg?
Mike  you can rant all you want, that is the beauty of being on a list.
I will check with some of my friends also that are in the audio industry, to
see if they have any suggestions.
Pierre K9eye
And Leader dog Smokey
Lifetime Member of Handiham





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On Behalf Of Mike Keithley
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 9:48 PM
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Subject: Analog sound?

Hello list,

This might sound strange, but I'm getting discouraged with the sound from my
ST590. It's just a digital sound, and my cochlear implants (being digital
devices themselves) just don't handle digitally-generated sound well. I'm
seriously thinking of finding an old ham receiver with analog signal
processing and putting up with poor selectivity etc. 

For example, my iPhone sounds digital, even with a good connection. To a
lesser extent, my land line phone, which is actually VOIP through Comcast,
also sounds digital. But the digital effect disappears when using my wife's
wired landline phone (which I'm sure turns into VOIP along the network).

now the TS590 just sounds digital even with the noise limiter and blanker
turned off and listening to AM broadcast stations with broadest selectivity.
But my Victor Stream (which is actually digital), sounds more analog and
better. In the 590, I can turn the RF gain down to keep an SSB signal from
influencing the AGC, and this removes the digital effect somewhat. But I
think something got lost in the audio quality (for my ears at least) of
modern transceivers. Maybe I'll try building my own receiver, like the
regenerative receiver I built in my novice days. That used vacuum tubes and
was inspired from an article in the BTP. It wasn't much, but it was analog!

Sorry for the rant. I used to enjoy phone, but it now sounds so gross
sometimes that I spend more time on CW and deal with weird
digitally-generated effects, which can get rather wild with sharp
selectivity.