"James Boyk" wrote in message


Mike Rivers wrote: ...more microphones ...sound better when loaded
with a transformer than when loaded with a capacitor and a few diode
junctions.

Good reason to use tubes.

Fallacious logic, to say the least.

But seriously, folks, such a statement about "microphones" and
"transformers" is surely too broad.

It's open to charges of excess simplicity. For example, transformers are
just matching devices. A SS preamp with a transformer still loads the mic
with R's, C's and semiconductors, only with the transformer acting as a
matching device.

It's also open to charges of excess complexity, given how many mics
themselves have transformers in them.

It's also open to massive charges of utter meaninglessness, given there is
no general agreement on what "sound(s) better" means. The closest definition
of "sound(s) better" with general agreement that we have relates to sonic
accuracy, which means no inherent coloration at all. It seems that the
closer you get to the sound source or the ear, the tougher the sonic
accuracy model gets to apply.