Yep, it's a fetish. If you want colorama maximus, loss of transparency and destruction of musical timing and loss of coherency then by all means buy more stuff with transformers in it.
Transformers = hysteresis distortion, bandwidth limitations, phase shifts that differ at different frequencies, even order distortion ( in single ended applications ).
This article gives you a good insight -
http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/Audio%20Transformers%20Chapter.pdf
Transformers = hysteresis distortion, bandwidth limitations, phase shifts that differ at different frequencies, even order distortion ( in single ended applications ).
This article gives you a good insight -
http://www.jensen-transformers.com/an/Audio%20Transformers%20Chapter.pdf