Howdy JJ,
Sure appreciate your consistent replies despite your being probably busy still tweaking and dreaming up more ways to get to VooDoo Audio nirvana Wink
Nah, Just busy with the move and getting the River House ready for the market.
By "quantify" I mean do you have something visual like a graph or similar or a "scientific" way of demonstrating the "flatness" of a receiver and/or Monitor on a receiver/transceiver?
Unfortunately, the data we had for the TS-870 is no longer in the database as we have abandoned modifications for this rig.
We do have a recent graph showing the comparison of the Stock TS-950sdx Receiver to the modified 950VMSDX.
There is also a graph of the TX Monitor from the modified TS-950, but we do not have a graph of the stock rig.
The following is a white-noise graph which shows the Main Receiver in LSB with the rig at its maximum receive bandwidth. The Yellow Line is the Stock 950sdx, the Green line is the modified 950VMSDX.
The following is a graph of the TX Monitor with an audio frequency sweep being input into the modified line input through the Jensen Transformer. Unfortunately, we do not have a graph of the stock SDX for comparison.
Oh, another question I have has to do with the VooDoo modified EX3200. It is really that much better than stock EX3200? I mean, I "only" have a TS870 and am very far from the kind of TX bandwidth you are able to create so would a VooDoo modded EX3200 go to waste unless I transmitted really wide?
You have to understand that the EX3200 is a Harmonix Generator. This unit will add Harminix and Sub Harmonix into the Audio Mix. This adds depth, dimension, and richness to the mix. It does not matter what the Transmit Bandwidth is when using this unit as long as the Transmit Audio Frequency Spectrum is BALANCED when using it.
The modified EX3200 is cleaner and adds more Sub Harmonix due to the installation of high end Op Amps which have greater low frequency extension and a cleaner high end, the installation of higher grade coupling capacitors, power supply modifications for a cleaner DC, etc.
Just remember, there is not just one single Holy Grail item you can change to achieve Audio Nirvana. It's everything you do that is ADDITIVE to the final product. It took us 10 years of culling out equipment, modifying equipment, and trying configurations which people said would never work to achieve the sound we have now. It is a sound that was sought after for a very long time. Yours will be different and it takes time to find it. It aighnt instant breakfast...most people give up or settle for "good enough".
Take Care,
The idea being that it is important to know really what one sounds like at the transmitting end before one's signal hits the airwaves!
