Who would pay $200 plus for a matching speaker? I WOULD

Agree, I have them mounted on gas shocks for adjustment.

http://nn4zz.com/FLEX6700.htm

They sound great on CW from the radio and music, etc from the PC.

Regards, Al / NN4ZZ

Hi Al,

I have a couple pair of Audioengine 5+s as well. Great speakers.

Can you tell me what gas shock mounts that you are using?

73,

Marc - N8KWX

Al, NN4ZZ,

Thanks for your great web page with pictures.  This is what is really needed for people having trouble with grounding, station setup, RFI etc.

I'll share one interesting point I had.  I have a 6500 and for some time I was running it on a Win10 laptop, pretty high powered laptop.  I had a very long coax run to an end-fed wire antenna.  I'd say the coax (LMR-400) was close to 100 feet.

I decided prior to Field Day to move my amp and tuner out into a shed so they would be close to the antenna so the long coax run would be from the Flex to the Amp.  From the amp to tuner would be 2 feet, Tuner to antenna would be like 25 feet.

During field day I had my laptop just reboot magically twice.  I was running 1kw.

During this same contest my RFI took out the control board in my dish washer.  I mean I thought i needed to replace it but a simple power reset brought it back to life but it was pretty confused.

I knew there was RF, just didn't have time to solve it but I also was not happy with the end-fed antenna.

So later in the summer I changed and put up a 280 foot horizontal loop.  This was feed with LMR-400 and a 2.5:1 balun.  This also resulted in a much shorter coax run.  I was able to move the amp and tuner back into a shed very close to the op position so I ended up with coax runs like 5 feet from Flex to amp.  2 feet to tuner, and like 40 feet to the feed point of the antenna.

My loop ends up to have a 1:1 on 7.100 and I op mostly CW on 40m.  Well this new antenna seems like an RF sucker because virtually all the other RF problems went away.  

So my addition to any RFI list is to make sure your antenna is a fairly good match.  it seems obvious but with tuners these days I can sort of see people assuming there tuner takes care of it.

Hi Mark,
I found the 6700 to be a bit more sensitive to RF that my previous rig and stopping common mode RF on my coax with a lot of chokes had the biggest improvement impact.  

I tried to look at every possible route for RF to get into the radio and address each one as well as grounding etc.  I figured I should document everything for my reference and in case anyone else was interested. 

The 6700 has been working for years now without the lockups and other erratic issues.  I still have a few  "touch lights" in the house that trigger but they have always been super sensitive.  

Al / NN4ZZ  
al (at) nn4zz (dot) com
6700 & SSDR-W  V 2.1.30
Win10

I like that,,a software defined speaker, good one Steve..lol

I agree.  I had two of those in Cherry and there were the best speakers I have owned. $25.00 amp and you are in business.

However when I switched from 6500 which was sitting on shelf off to the side to a 6600m which needed to be front and center I had to sell them to make room.

The bose speakers are not quite as good as the Palstars but good enough. The two inputs for PC and radio makes it nice.