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Make Your Radios Audio Better – Heil Parametric Receive Audio System Equalizer








Today we take a look at the Heil Parametric Receive Audio System Equalizer (PRASEQ) and the Heil HPS-5 powered speaker. These working together simply make your radios sound better and allow you to pull out lower audio stations.

PRASEQ:
HPS-5 Speaker:

Thanks to Heil for sending these over to look at. I was not paid for this demonstration, but I was given these devices for free.

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00:00 – Intro
00:32 – Disclaimer
01:07 – PRASEQ Description
01:26 – Input and Outputs
01:57 – What is it doing?
02:26 – Initial configuration
03:32 – Demonstration
07:35 – My Thoughts

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24 Comentários

  1. Hi Josh, great video! I have had my eye on that EQ, you got me to pull the trigger. 😀 Hey what is that software on the monitor above to and the left of the 7610? Thx. 73 K6SUD

  2. Always quality gear from Heil Sound. Will consider a purchase now of the PRASEQ and HPS-5. I own two Heil headset, including the Pro 7 for the QTH and a BM-17 for POTA. The best and Bob Heil is an amazing person.

  3. With my old ears and excellent hearing aids I could not perceive better intelligibility. I have done work with different audio processing in my K3 and with my hearing aids and that seems to work as well for me or even better. The amplified speaker from Heil might be a good investment in itself. My Bose noise cancelling headset still works well and is best for my old ears, even over my behind the ears hearing aids.

  4. I love Heil stuff, but I will say I bought this unit and RF gets into it real bad. I returned the system. I was in no mood to try all kinds of tricks and beads to get it fixed. I even set the system up on the other end of the house from the shack and my voice was still ripping out of it when I talked. I had the wife listen, and it was no better even being 40 feet away from the shack. I really wanted it to work, and loved how it sounded,,,,, until I keyed down, even barefoot on a resonant antenna it was horrible.

  5. Thanks for demo Josh. I notice you got your AGC set to Fast. Try it on Slow. I reckon it could enhance things further.
    73 Nick M1DDD

  6. Newbie question – how would the Heil Parametric Audio System compare to the RigBlaster (DXPro).. would it compliment or be overkill ? Transceiver(s) using would be 9700 and 7300 with three SP-38 ICOM speakers. Thanks ahead for your thoughts

  7. I have the PRASEQ and one HPS-5 speaker. They work as advertised. However I did encounter serious RFI "HOWL" when transmitting high power on 10M. Installed the PALOMAR RFI Ferrites for the PRASEQ (Yes apparently this is a large enough problem that Palomar has built a specific ferrite kit for the PRASEQ). Also HEIL Sound was kind enough to send me power wires that I use in place of their 120->12V wall warts. I am running the power from my 13.8V Anderson power distribution panel to the PRASEQ and Speaker. Last tip for you all, The amount of gain that you dial in to the PRASEQ and on the back the HPS-5 has some bearing on their propensity to pick up RFI. So back those down if you are experiencing bleed in when transmitting. Again for me this was only an issue on 10M using 400+ watts. At 100W not an issue on 10M. And an observation…. seems that you produced more of a demo on microphones than a demo of how to use the PRASEQ. (ie the Sony ECM-B1M and Zoom H6). Would have like you to "show us" how you picked out a signal deep in the slush…. Art W1SWL

  8. Heil gear is top notch! Old HAM ears need all the help they can get for a better audible signal.👍
    Splitting the signal on the 7610 would be a great option to test with.
    I prefer knobs for all the most used functions compared to an annoying menu system to memorise and navigate through.👍

  9. Actually, it sounds no better than a Force 8 equalizer I got from Sam Ash music. And a lot more versatile.

    If you watch some of the YT hams from the UK, they use equalizers

    DX Commander Callan is big into EQ. But he is into music …

    And I think music stores are a source for audio stuff for us. Cables. Jacks. Et. Al. My SA is 2 miles from the house. They know when I come in I am looking for items I can use for ham, and do not pressure me to buy. And a few know ICom radios are picky about mics…. Ans they realize for some items they are a local Radio Shack…

  10. I bet Bob would come to your shack and do a personal demonstration. That would make a great video. I can only judge the audio you produced based on the quality of the device I am listening to.

  11. I have terrible QRM (and QRN occasionally). When trying to listen to my nearly intelligible 10 local repeater, I found piping my receiver audio through my PC and using Nvidia Broadcast AI to filter out everything but the voice worked incredibly well.
    There is some occasional issues with it filtering out voices in the noise floor, necessitating some pre-eq filtering. But how it cleans up and eliminates noise is nothing like any notch filter can do. it seems to fill in the gaps as well, meaning words that otherwise would seem cut off are understandable.

  12. I want to love this but I encounter massive RFI problems when I use the included power supplies. 🙁 Pegs the S meter on S9

  13. First off.. This isn't a review… Second off… I will be giving you my thoughts and experience…

    Ok, sure. Gotcha.

  14. Interesting stuff. I find one of the most effective noise reduction techniques is just cupping my hand over the speaker. Works great, and is pretty cheap.

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