Hello Jim. I have just started trying various antique transformers, current step-ups, and not-so-current head amps. I am collecting them right now to REALLY settle which sounds best in my system. The only thing I know so far is that amoung transformers from UTC, Altec, Denon, and EAR, versus head amps from Music Reference (tube) and Klyne (solid state), they all reveal each others' limitations. Luckily, there is one man (an electrical engineer with an audiophile ear) on Ebay, CAPN-BOB, that is making very well thought-out step-ups using these vintage transformers. So I think he is the place to start, for us that dont have the knowledge and test-equipment to make them ourselves properly. I have a lot of listening and comparing to do before I decide which I can live with. And, in the end, I just might go back to a high-output cartridge. --Warren
MC Step-ups made from Vintage Input Transformers
Category: Analog
Hello all,
I am looking for input regarding the use and application of these rare and expensive vintage input transformers used as MC Step-ups like the Altec 4722, Peerless K241D or 4665, UTC HA-100, Triad HS-1 or the Holy Grail of them all, the Western Electric 618B and of coarse there are others.
What are you fellows using out there and what do you feel are they advantages over modern step-ups? Do they impart their own flavor or is it all just more Audio foolery?
thanks in advance for your comments,
Diamond Jim
Hello all,
I am looking for input regarding the use and application of these rare and expensive vintage input transformers used as MC Step-ups like the Altec 4722, Peerless K241D or 4665, UTC HA-100, Triad HS-1 or the Holy Grail of them all, the Western Electric 618B and of coarse there are others.
What are you fellows using out there and what do you feel are they advantages over modern step-ups? Do they impart their own flavor or is it all just more Audio foolery?
thanks in advance for your comments,
Diamond Jim