I owned a Clear Speech DSP speaker, but didn't keep it long, unfortunately.
The wideband "hiss" that was always present was really annoying,
particularly on weaker DX signals. It just served to add a "veil" over the
intelligibility of the DX. The result was the same with communications
headphones or another speaker. I found Timewave and JPS DSP audio filters
more useful.

I really wanted the Clear Speech unit to blow the others away, as the demo
audio clips of the Clear Speech in auction were impressive. It just didn't
match up to the advance billing, in my opinion.

Guy Atkins
Puyallup, WA USA

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I understand the first batch of these will be shipping out in early
February, but I'm not finding a lot of information about them on the
web. I'm told that the Clear Speech's DSP filtering is excellent,
requires very little knob turning and can do a lot to reduce background
noise on SSB; but does anyone know if the speaker *itself* is any good?
According to Heil's website, the Clear Speech has a headphone jack.
So, if I don't like the Clear Speech speaker, I suppose I could use
either phones or a different speaker, but still get the benefit of the
Clear Speech's DSP filtering?

Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!