I had to go outside of the forum for someone to show me in person a audio rack and how it works ect ect...you gotta play the guessing game around hereAlso Bearcat, if you cannot get ahold of someone outside the forum,
contact
ExitThirteen on here and perhaps he can help you out, someone mentioned they have heard him on air and his audio was truly, high fidelity!
I know on a normal stock radio like a cobra 25 you can definitely tell a difference when let's say 131 mustang is on the air...do you have any audio samples of your station or videos?Lol I don't know if what I have is what people would call "hi-fidelity".... but it's certainly not normal bandwidth... it has slightly enhanced low end, and enhanced high end..... but it still has to pass thru the filters, and one of the ways to get better "hi-fi" audio is to install different filters that roll off the lows and highs in different areas than the stock filters.
Also, the radio that receives this "hi-fi" signal has to be modified to fully reproduce the signal properly. You can mod your TX for 5K width or even 20K bandwidth, but the average Joe Blow CB'er won't hear a big difference on his end unless his radio is modified on the RX to reproduce that extra audio width. It can be done, but it's just not the easiest of things to do.... and in most cases, it's not practical, either.
That's why I didn't go nutty on making my CB "hi-fi". I changed out a few capacitors and did a re-alignment. That was it. Anything beyond that wouldn't be very practical. It did make a modest difference, however.
"Results may vary, and are not guaranteed."
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Oh you know itOn a stock Cobra 29 MMM sounds choice, with the hifi rx caps changed I imagine he would truly sound "top shelf".
-Leap
On a stock Cobra 29 MMM sounds choice, with the hifi rx caps changed I imagine he would truly sound "top shelf".
-Leap
If you do the cap changes in the 29 you might replace the 455 filter with a 6k to pass more high frequency tones. It's not a dramatic difference.
I've considered this myself, would a better quality crystal 455khz IF filter help to mitigate the problem?Mind you doing this mod increases Rx bleed over big time
I think it comes down to bandwidth and how the channels are spaced apart, after one starts to transmit wide-beyond-wide they will splatter... I don't know from memory how wide a CB channel is.. So i'm just spittin' in the wind here!I've considered this myself, would a better quality crystal 455khz IF filter help to mitigate the problem?
I know of a guy who eats SMD repair for breakfast, lunch, & dinner but he repairs Apple products mainly and doesn't touch radios as far as I know. [Louis Rossmann of Rossmann Repair Group N.Y.]PS: anyone know a good tech who is familiar with hi-fi mods and good with SMT stuff?