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In the Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators?
Post Subject: Romy, what are your listening impressions of this?Posted by drdna on: 4/2/2007
 Romy the Cat wrote: |
| Sure, there is nothing wrong with a transformer-attenuator if it has a pure restive load but as we know it is never the case. If we need a drop voltage elsewhere then we use resistors, right? We do not we use transformer-attenuators everywhere else instead resistors. Why then we need suddenly it use a transformer-attenuator as a volume control? |
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It is unavoidable, the physical aspects of the audio system affect the sound. Paper cones are different than ceramic cones. Soft wood makes better horns. The answer to the transformer attenuator question is simply if it accomplishes something better than resistors for the sound.
It goes without saying that the transformer attenuator has a LOT of problems, LOADS of problems with impedence etc. It is a terribly flawed thing. BUT every audio part is a compromise. The real question is whether despite these audible flaws (which will present additive distortions in coloration and timbre I expect), the transformer attenuator has fewer of the additive and subtractive distortions that resistor-based solutions have.
I haven't listened so I can't speak eruditely about it, but I hope perhaps Romy has had the opportunity to have heard these transformer attenuators and can comment on how they sound in an optimal setting?
Adrian
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