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In the Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser.
Post Subject: ...perhaps too arrogantly...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/1/2005
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costo  Brian Clark wrote: |
| Have you experimented with transformer attenuators Romy? |
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Nope, I did not. I have two purely theoretical problems with transformer-attenuators.
First I did not see any transformers that can handle LF all the way down (beside ET but they are out of the game). I made my experiments in past with Lamm’s SET and was not able find any magnetics that can handle the LM2’s bass and now, with the Melquiades, the result I sure would be even less satisfying.
Second, if we even presume that a transformer-attenuator is transparent enough (that feel will not be a case) then still the cables, switched; DCRs of primary and all the rest things are driven by the output stages of the sources. Some of them have quite high Rout. I believe that a good buffer with ultra low output impedance (I still do not have it) would be way better alternative from a perspective of noise, driveabilety and dynamics.
Still, my observations on the subject of transformer-attenuators are not based on my practical experiences as I always thought (perhaps arrogantly) that transformer-attenuators would be good enough only for a playback with those little ported monitors of 89dB sensitivity that are having the silk done tweeter… :-)
The Cat
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