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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: The Expressive Technologies SU-1
Post Subject: Some notes on the S&B TX-103 "sound"Posted by Thorsten on: 1/24/2005
Hi Roman,

 Romy the Cat wrote:
the S&B unfortunately does just gain, nothing else) but for the money S&B do OK.


Then it does exactly what is asked of it, I asked JB to design it for me PERSONALLY as a "wire with gain". I have been on previous occasions been unconvinced of many stepup transformers, be they sowter, amplimo, EAR or jensen.

The only ones I got to like where old Mike stepups from Neve Mixing Desks and some ancient and I mean ultra-ancient Ribbon Mike stepups pulled from an old grampian console. Both of these where of course virtually single pieces and even they retained some colorations.

The TX-103 has come very close to a "wire with gain", which is more than I can say about most other passive or active steups. Not everyone wants or needs a wire with gain, well as the BBC commented, other suppliers exist.... ;-)

Ciao T

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