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Old 21st Apr 2017, 10:06 pm   #20
mhennessy
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Default Re: Radio sound quality - some measurements

Here's another - the Hacker Aviemore RP78.

This is a late Bournemouth model, fitted with a Philips plastic loudspeaker. Despite appearances, these actually aren't too bad. This set has a pushbutton tone control, so the two curves show the two positions of this switch. You can see that it alters the HF level by about 8dB. Unfortunately, the "up" position is rather too bright, and "down" is too dull. Can't win!

The bass is rather limited, but that's not surprising given the size of the set. The midrange and treble is reasonably smooth and quite well extended, and mostly sounds "crisp and detailed" rather than "annoying". The deep suckout at 2kHz is interesting.

I have other examples of the Aviemore that use different loudspeakers - I'm expecting those to measure rather differently (if I ever find them ).
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