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MC transformers - what do they sound like?

Besides providing gain, are good quality MC transformers transparent to the signal they are providing the gain to. Or do they give added/reduced bass weight, more high end sparkle, added grain or what?.
This is obviously compared to active gain
It seems that audiophiles either luv or hate MC transformers?.
downunder
downunder OP
1,329 posts
 
Raul. I have emailed you off line.

BTW, now that I have my Pass Xono back I am lot happier. The SUT's that I have listened to - EAR 834 and manley steelhead have been very dynamics but have had a sort of unnatural high end and rather loose bass with the EAR.

cheers
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Along the lines of Dougdeacon's comment, the availability of a $800 SUT may make it possible for a financially-challanged audiophile to use a superior MC cartridge, that would be out of the question if he had to buy a $5000 preamp. One must consider the cartridge/SUT combination in this tradeoff.
4yanx
1,576 posts
 
I want to be one to test and report on the Raul phono stage.
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