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- From: Mike Diack <mike-d@staff.tc.umn.edu>
- Subject: Re: question about AF signal transformers
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:21:34 GMT
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- In article <luke.726426475@barney> Luke Whitaker, luke@cs.city.ac.uk
- writes:
- >Is there any technical reason why small signal AF
- >transformers are a problem - I don't understand transformer technology
- very
- >well. The small transformers that are available seem to have frequency
- >responses way above audio. I saw some post here about why HF
- transformers can
- >be smaller than AF transformers, although the original post has expired
- on this
- >site. Does this imply that AF transformers *are* readily available,
- albiet
- >physically large ?
-
- There are several issues here :
- Availability : Audio trannies are available in just about any config
- you desire - the big problem is cost
- Jensen (California) make all manner of *extremely expensive* ones
- aimed at the professional audio (mixers, PA co's,studios) market
- Entry price - about $20 up (and up...and up) cheaper by the 1000
- Sowter (UK) cover the same market, also Pico etc do a broad range
- of devices - telephone up to pro-audio quality. There are many other
- manufacturers. - At the other end of the market is the scungy little
- trannies you find in modems, Rat shack shelves etc. These are low fi
- in the extreme. - this brings us to
- Size : Broadly speaking, the bigger the better. The more iron, the less
- likely the thing is to saturate at low frequencies/high drive levels.
- There are other factors such as interwinding capacitance, core quality
- Winding interleaving etc, all of which contribute to the quality (or
- lack of) of the device. You get what you pay for. I too would love to
- hear of a budget supplier of superb quality transformers (BTW it
- pays to hang around recording studios, tv studios etc that are being
- torn apart)
- cheers
- Mike.
-