Hello,
I recently acquired a pultec clone, with a tube makeup gain amp after the passive eq section. Looking under the hood, I noticed that the output of the amp section was driving an Edcor 10K/600 transformer for the outputs. As an experiment, i thought I would try substituting a Marinair 31267, which can be wired for 10k/600 operation, to see if there would be any usefully interesting difference.
Long story short... it seems like the mariner can't really take much past +4 db, which isn't as much fun at this stage in the signal path.
So looking to replace it with a trafo that has a higher input rating, like a Peerless 15095 or UTC h-26.
Any thoughts? Have i missed something here, like demagnetizing, or is this a basic limitation of this particular transformer?
I recently acquired a pultec clone, with a tube makeup gain amp after the passive eq section. Looking under the hood, I noticed that the output of the amp section was driving an Edcor 10K/600 transformer for the outputs. As an experiment, i thought I would try substituting a Marinair 31267, which can be wired for 10k/600 operation, to see if there would be any usefully interesting difference.
Long story short... it seems like the mariner can't really take much past +4 db, which isn't as much fun at this stage in the signal path.
So looking to replace it with a trafo that has a higher input rating, like a Peerless 15095 or UTC h-26.
Any thoughts? Have i missed something here, like demagnetizing, or is this a basic limitation of this particular transformer?