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In the Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1
Post Subject: Re: the after-transformer cables...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/8/2006
When I said “cable” then I meant whatever cable might mean, the sonic qualities and whatever comes with it. You cartridge with it 2mV drives a cable to a transformer, for instance 1M that has impedance, capacitance and so on. The transformer has 26dB-28sB gain and what it goes it multiply the presents of the after-transformer cable in 26 times. As the result the cartridge see 1M before-transformer cable and 25M of after-transformer cable. Each sonic characteristic of that cable that you might observe user normal conditions would be also 26 times more right in your face. This cable is the most critical of all. There is another thing. The transformer helps with voltage but loosing current. Most of cables, if the current loaded “sound” much better. In the after-transformer cable, the current is insultingly low, not to mention that it has very low current initially from the cartridge…. To insult the injury I would ad that some of the cables could not be burned by higher current to sound OK at the low current…. Anyhow, you should not be worrying about it for now as you should be able to hear the ET contribution without going into any fancy cabling arrangements
Rgs,
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