i replaced my factory ext speaker with a small amp and book shelf speakers, so much better with or without the aess on

I have a 710 as well. To me, the external speaker seemes a gimmick, but stuffing the enclosure made it sound better. I might have to do that myself.I'm very interested to hear the results if you replace the driver.

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I think drilling the holes improved it!, at least that's what it sounds like on my end.

Before I go criticizing this video and the previous one he made on this topic... I must ask what is your radio of choice? What do you use when you decide to sit down and make some HF contacts? Do you have any hearing issues (do you hear better on one side? Long term noise exposure? etc...)? I do, after years of punk\metal playing with no hearing protection and tons of time at the gun club, low tone or bass-y voices muffle because I do not hear mids, and highs so well. I hear plenty of lows, I need to turn up the treble and mids. This radio does exactly that. The AESS system is not focused on low fatigue tone... IT IS focused on phenome clarity. How well you understand words received. For me it does that very well. It is a great radio. So my thought is... What price point of radios do you prefer to use? There are radios doubling in price, that do sound much better. The Kenwood TS 990 and 890. If you use the TS990 then yea your gonna hate the FT710 and many many other popular radios. So what is your favorite hf rig?

what about an external equalizer, with external loudspeaker, so you are the boss of the sound. Depending on the transmission modes you could set the sound you like best.

I thought the external speaker was only responsible for the highs (which is why it faces forward) and the internal speaker dealt with the lows. So air movement of the external one wouldn't be much of an issue would it? Have you looked at replacing the internal speaker?

Sounds like yeasu got it backwards. The bass needs to go to the eternal speaker.

I found using the internal and external speaker combo more hype than anything else. Totally useless. I turned the internal speaker off. I did go into the menu and change the treble, base and mid tone settings and only use an external speaker that I had laying around the shack. I purchased the Field version.

:) I do think it sounds better, very strange the way they mounted the speaker!

Want a good sounding speaker ? Open up the speaker housing. All that empty space in there ? take an old t shirt, or similar cotton material and stuff it into the empty space. Bam, sounds 100 % better

Interesting test. Internal speaker sounded distorted as if there is not enough throw in the voice coil. Stuffing+Drilling did sound better but does not address the internal speaker distortion. Might be better to convert the external speaker into a full range transmission line with free-air resonance around 100hz and shutoff aess?

могли бы внутрь блок питания установить, места вполне достаточно

I have to confess, the speaker for my 710 has never come out of the box. Only bought it for portable, but even the 7610 in the shack only ever gets used with a headset. Still, I’ll be interested in the results, especially given the fact you can buy ready made aftermarket stuff for the expensive iCom external speakers from DX Engineering!

Looking to purchase the 710, without the speaker, with the intention of hooking up to a set of 3.1 desktop speakers with treble/bass control. Is there a feature to turn off the radio’s internal speaker?

If you're using a low pass filter whether it be 700 or a thousand the remaining audio has no base to it so if nothing below 700 or a thousand goes to the external speaker you can muffle amid or a high but you can't add base cuz it's not there if I'm hearing what you're saying correctly

Confused, maybe I didn’t see or hear correctly- when you say stuffed, does that mean you put sound dampening material inside the enclosure? Also I would have imagined lots more varied spectrum of reflection interference when there is more sound coming from the enclosure itself, which would presumably happen with the extra holes added.

I will just use a high quality book shelf speaker

Speaker that comes with ft-710 is cheap and poor quality. The only way u can improve its sound is to cover the inside walls with 3-4 mm rubber material. Not sure if u ever tried it in yr home-made speakers, but this should work the best