Are you some sort of child? I’ve owned 618B’s over the years. They were never mic transformers. If you don’t agree then keep it to yourself until you figure out what you’re talking about. So many people on here act like they have the last and only word on it. Personally, go ahead use em as mic transformers, until you find out they’re not suitable.
Well. they do measure quite well, at least the pair of 121-A amps I had for awhile. Which I used as mic preamps exclusively. The throughput was flatter than most things that came a decade later.
Awwww, you’re so precious. Ok, ok…they can anything you want them to be. Feel better?
RULES said:
Or at least the facts according to you. I mean this comment in a nice way, to further support my original comment, the Asian market for WE equipment has consumed several of the 618B’s I’ve owned. But not because they’re building mic preamps. The research I’ve done in the past which led me to sell them indicates they are primarily designed for MC usage. The Asians are big into vintage hifi, particularly WE stuff. So, that fits into the consumers world quite nicely. IF they were designed for MIC input, while still being the holy grail, those transformers never would have left the US. In fact, with audio production, there are many, many excellent choices of transformers, unfortunately there are no exceptional designed mic preamps that feature the 618B to speak of.
Well, thank you for proving my point! A broadcasting mixer used for voice reproduction and hifi….broadcasting consoles have literally no function in a recording studio. This whole thing is silly. Think about it…so many folks on here would dog me if I said I was using my vintage Neumann U47 for broadcasting voice. Sure it would work. But why would I do it…
What do you think they worked with in (not only) German radio and tv stations in the 50s and 60s? I think you have misunderstood something...
Going back to the 618 topic.... WE's products were sold for radio broadcast stations, motion picture studios and theaters, disc cutting systems, PA systems, Ma Bell telephone circuits and similar professional applications. There was no "hifi hobby" consumer market to speak of and no market for a MC phono transformer.
Most of the recording consoles in the '50s and early '60s were in fact broadcast consoles.
Even into the 1980's in the USA. I knew an older "Golden Throat" voice-over guy in Okla. City who for years used his own vintage U47 for his work. I've seen pix from the 1990's or 2000's of the (in)famous "shock jock" The Greaseman using what appears to be a U87.
Actually I disproved your point. In post #21 You said, and I quote "They were never mic transformers"
Wrong inference.
