I missed this post from earlier
howardc1951 wrote:Quote from a SUT manufacturer:
(They also make a very nice interconnect apparently!)
"Transformers have much more benign distortion characteristics than active circuits and they are capable of producing a truly sublime soundstage with detail and separation unsurpassed by the more common transistor and op-amp alternatives."
Quote from several people I've met:
"I've read it on the internet so it must be true!"
Having lit the blue touch paper I'll retreat!
Bullshit - they are coils so they are filters, that is why some people like them. I will do a big post tomorrow too late tonight to do this subject justice.
But I will say one thing, if in 1960 I had invented a lower noise small signal valve than they had back then Ortofon and other moving coil pick-up makers would have been biting my hand off to supply them. The *ONLY* reason they used transformers was that the available active circuits were too noisy.
Now we have low noise active circuits transformers for this application are as archaic as valves and just as unnecessary, just not as dangerous or as illegal.