I have tried just about every transformer out there over the years. The Verion Cotter is at the very top. Lately Quicksilver is making a tremendous unit for a very reasonable price. The Old Denon au 340 is also very good but must be modified to be at its best. I did not like the lundahls. They were highly colored and measured poorly. Also regardless of what people say microphone transformers are deficienct in the midrange and are thick sounding. The best are usually unobtainable. A very good bet is the Music first which uses the Stevens and Billington tx103s. Expensive though
Best MC step up transformer
I am trying to find the MC transformer for my system. Now I am using Koetsu Urushi + Audio Research Phono Ref 1 with Jensen inside. The sound is pretty good but as always I wanna make it better. I've tryed to use old Koetsu MC step up trans but was unhappy about it. The sound was dull, not clear. When I've looked through ebay and audiogon, I've recognized that they are a lot of unknown for me variants (from 6k$ kondo to 100-200 $). Could you advise the best variant from quality/price point of view ?