Hi-fi, Mid-fi, Low-Fi SSB ESSB MP3 Off-Air Hi-Fi Audio Montage
Purpose
The purpose of this page is to demonstrate various station audio
techniques in several SSB transmit passband widths, while providing
a common and flat 6 kHz receiver standard for everyone! All stations
represented below reflect what can be done with Single Side Band
from minimum processing to complex, from simple audio rack setups
to more elaborate. Plenty of variety here! There are many more
stations producing fine audio than those listed below, but these
are stations that I have had receiver access to, that sound better
than the typical audio associated with SSB.
Listener Suggestions
It is highly recommend that you
use good, flat response headphones plugged directly into your
sound card output jack for the best
fidelity. Some computer speaker systems will not have the sufficient
fidelity to accurately reproduce many of the samples provided.
Recording Technique
All recordings were created using Cool Edit 2000 in a flat 6 kHz
receiver bandwidth. The original .wav recordings were recorded
mono at 16 bit, 48 or 44.1 kHz sampling, edited and normalized
to 95%, then converted to standard MP3 format using a 6:1 compression
ratio, 128 kbps at a sampling rate of 44.1 kHz.
Recording Criteria for the List
My recording criteria for standard SSB recordings was a reasonably
well balanced, well processed sound of less than 3kHz of audio
bandwidth. My criteria for ESSB recordings was an SSB transmit
audio frequency response of at least 3 kHz or greater where higher
fidelity is supported.
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