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In the Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity.
Post Subject: Another attack on the electricity problemsPosted by Romy the Cat on: 1/24/2008

A month or so ago I came to an occasion to fish a large isolation transformer. It is not that I believe in isolation transformers as all my former experiments with them delivered quite gruesome sonic result. However, since the APS people are still not wing to do anything sonically reputable and keep me in the there a back burner off their interests I decided to knock in any alternative door is available to me. Ok, ok, let me to put it in a different way: it was available and it was cheap – the frugality is my main life-guideing principle. Also, my desperation with electricity leads me to celebrate my stupid optimism over my sense of really and experience so I went for the transformer.

Anyhow, it is a large 3000W toroidal isolation transformer made by Amveco

http://www.amveco.com

for the needs of medical industry and used in laser machine. It was sitting for a while in my basement and I never tried it but today, since the new Super Milq is singing, I decided to give to this transformer a chance.  To make the long story short: it was not juts horrible but it was beyond any imaginable negative expectations. Immediate huge collapse in dynamic, complete loosing of any texture form lover midrange and below, stripping harmonics from upper region: the sharp, boomy and compressed sound – what could be more fun?

Hmmm, well, I need to get accustom to live with electrical disappointments….
Romy the caT

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