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RE: Lundahl am core Now that the hype has subsided worth it?

Posted by amnesiac (A) on June 11, 2016 at 04:59:41

In Reply to: RE: Lundahl am core Now that the hype has subsided worth it? posted by 91derlust on June 11, 2016 at 04:25:51:

there actually cheap compared to most that i have been shopping around online. That is a winder that prints their prices for any given model on their website. For me lundahl are a known quantity at least the iron cores. I have used a few over the years. I haven't tried the am cores. It is hard to justify the almost double the cost for a trans that takes the same time to wind. I believe they make their own cores which makes me a little suspicious of that because compared to say hitachi finemet. How can they be up to the standard of a company with a r&d budget of millions.

The lundalhs are so flexible if I gap them myself I can use them for so many different tubes se and pp. I like to build a lot of amps. I use my trans over and over. And I use many different speakers. So a winder that says they can only make a trans for a single speaker impedance limits the appeal for me. I want to build a big push pull amp but I would most likely pull it down after a while and rework it for se.


There must be people on this forum that has had silicon and then upgraded hopefully anyway.
I am a little reluctant to order custom trans. 3 times It has gone wrong for me. One pair took nearly 12 months another time I never got them at all. And one time they showed up with the taps marked incorrectly. I should add that only one of those guys where american and that was handmade transformer guy and doesn't really count I guess.

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