On 8/24/05 5:18 AM, in article ,
"Federico" wrote:

What I understand from various threads is that audio transformers (we're
talking about output ones) are mostly there to balance the signal... I also
undestand that using Xformers is sonically worse than not using them...
My questions a
1) are there other ways for balancing an unbalanced signal?
2) so manufacturers use Xformers to colour the sound?
3) What coloured sound means? Distorsion?
4) do Xformers make the sound bigger but innatural?

What about interstage transformers?

These may be stupid questions but I'm getting kind of confused on this
topic...
Thanks for the replies.
F.



Stained glass windows are HORRID as optics, but they do WONDERFUL THINGS to
the light coming into a room... If indeed that's what you WANT in that room.
The character, severe or subtle, that a transformer can impart, by design or
abuse, is a choice... and one that can only be made after you;ve worked with
them, experimented with them, played with them enough to know what the heck
it is they do.
Like brushes and paint mixing, TALKING about spectral lines and stroke-line
analyses tells an artist NOTHING about why he wants THAT color for THIS part
of THIS painting.