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"Ninety percent of tube amps have a transformer in the signal path"

Exactly!

And did Levinson also condemn the step-up transformers which many moving coil cartridge users seem to prefer, I wonder? I'd have to see his actual quote to better understand the context. Perhaps it had something to do with the implementation of the particular transformers recommended in the AudioXpress article that he was opposed to. All transformers certainly aren't equal in 'sound quality', something Levinson certainly had to have been aware of.

I'd love to listen to music without transformers, capacitors, etc. in the signal path, but I could never afford to pay the Rolling Stones to do an acoustic set in my living room.


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