[BC] Shulke's Black Box

[DHultsman5@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/3/2006 9:08:23 PM Central Daylight Time,  
richwood at pobox.com writes:

That'll  be tough. Even Jim's Black Box is no match for those digital 
artifacts.  The wire used was analog.



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The transient and peak response of analogue wire vs. that of oxygen free  
digital wire is really worth the extra bucks I have been told.  ??
 
I will say that Irv Joel, after Cox bought Schulke,  was involved in  many of 
Cox Radio's radio purchases.  A station was purchasing a 10 kW. AM  
transmitter from us and the one stipulation was that we had to get rid of the  Peerless 
input transformer in the audio input to the box.
 
The sales guys had been trying to get this changed at for some time since  
both the "Power Rock" and the 317C-2,  50 kW. already had differential  inputs.  
What we had been trying to change for a few years got changed in  the product 
when Cox sent in the formal request with an order.
 
I recall many station engineers telling me they had to modify their  consoles 
to remove any of the cheap balancing transformers on the their consoles  to 
solve the problem of core saturation on audio peaks in  the transformers.
 
Probably the one thing a Schulke station did was to point out that FM could  
once again have a good technical sound, that reproduced the music without all  
the artifacts of heavy processing and clipping and still remain commerically  
salable.
 
I recall a good friend of mine that after he received a new 8200 one year  
programmed it for no processing except for peak limiting on December 25th each  
year.  He was once again amazed at how well the station sounded, on the 24  
hours of Christmas, with minimal processing.  He ran a couple of Schulke  
stations at one time.
 
Dave