[sdiy] Altec 1588s - what's the big deal?

[John Mahoney]

At 12:23 PM 6/21/2007, dj hohum wrote:

>As the cleaning up and sorting continues I find other things long
>forgotten. I have a dozen or so altec 1588 transformer preamps. I see
>these things seem to have something of a following. What's so great
>about them? Are they useful in a diy sense, i.e., what kind of
>projects might really benefit from of these. My sense is that they are
>yet another overrated phenomenon.

Passing a signal through "heavy iron" (a large transformer) is said 
to do magical things to the sound -- or not, depending on the 
transformer in question. This is particularly popular in microphone 
preamps. You could build a preamp or line driver (buffer) with one of 
the Altecs in the circuit and see if you hear the magic.
--
john


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