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RE: Really?

There's a lot more to an output transformer than voltage specs.

The inductance of the primary will determine the low frequency -3db point.

The winding capacitance and winding to core capacitance will determine the high frequency -3db point.

There's also the leakage inductance.

The winder has to strike a balance in a full range output transformer.

Different materials and different size air gaps and different size cores with different winding technique will expand the range possible.

I don't think (but it could be true) that a winder of a full range output transformer would give up bass for highs, etc. I think he would just, as best he could given the materials he was using, strike a balance.

Better material, better winding technique, better extension at both ends of the spectrum.

On a different note,

I've come to realize that single ended gapped series output transformers never have enough inductance to play the bass correctly. Neither do output tube plate chokes for parafeed circuits.

I'm thinking of having output transformers wound that give up even more bass extension for better high frequency extension and then just filter out the bass feeding the amp.

Tre'


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Edits: 07/07/15
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