Ben made the right choice IMO. The cinemag (also
Reichenbach) is the best all rounder transformer availiable today. To me jensen is hi fi-ish.. excels on the high end shelf. Sowter is iron neve like but not like st ives.....Lundahl are exceptional on low end instruments like the kick and bass. Thick sounding
But the cinemag excels on voice, bass, all of it.... When we talk about cinemag. I am thinking inward connections (some of the best made gear today), a designs, Bees neez, Aspen Pittman Grooove tubes (the vipre what a MONSTER pre), Universal Audio, etc....all wonderful pieces of gear. Tell me if I am wrong. But Soundelux mics use cinemags as well.
The Tab BV8R from tab funkenwerk and used in Wunder, Telefunken USA U47s is nice. Seems very high output. But if I had to pick, the cinemag would be my choice based on my experience with both. But nothing would beat the original Neumann BV8 Transformer.
Ben, have you tried the Haufe brand yet? Neumann used them.
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Originally Posted by mics  Hi again,
You are right in that manufacturing a product needs to be a carefully thought out process whereby any and all part are carefully scrutenised and chosen on merit and pricepoint.
In my oppinion, paper in oil caps are the best choice for the T1 as they are both sonically and physically appropriate for the mic. I have tried film caps, I even use an ERO roederstein 1uf capacitor in the Arabella (the yellow one), this is ONE of the reasons that the Arabella and Tribute sound very different.
I have tried many transformers, souter, ludahl, harbuch etc, every time i go back to Cinemag. They are an amazing sounding transformer and what i find even more important than pricepoint is consistancy and that they are. The cinemag transformer is by no means cheap either but it is worth it.
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