"too high" compared to what?Whether the loading resistor is applied to the primary or secondary the effective load seen at the dac output is way too high for any reasonable voltage compliance.
includingIs it to act as a low pass?
"too high" compared to what?Whether the loading resistor is applied to the primary or secondary the effective load seen at the dac output is way too high for any reasonable voltage compliance.
includingIs it to act as a low pass?
Can one transformer be configured to provide balanced or single ended output or do you have to choose?
Yes, it is for the customers choice....continuity of a single winding is preferable...
The whole sound amplitude will be splitted for two waves. That is it. I believe there is no any impact to the sound quality inside my transformers while splittering coils because of toroidal type of the core I use in my transformers like it happenes in non-symmetrical types of cores....also with half the step up for balanced it wouldnt sound the same.
In case of ES90x8 it is prefered to use primary coils with as lower active (DC) resistance as possible because I believe the Voltage mode of ES90x8 is only for sound checking (works/not), but the only really high SQ mode is the current mode.Can you explain why 1:4 is preferred than 1:1 with lower I/V resistor?
So the 1:4 transformer is trading current for voltage,So 1:4 is a good compromise between DCR/winding length and resulting FR and amplitude level.
The DC resistance of the 1:1 transformer used with AK4490 (for example) tens times more and sounds worse with ES.Wouldnt a 1:1 transformer with 2k resistor result in the same voltage level
with better specs of 1:1 transformer?
There is more powerfull LPF in case of ES (or AK) DACs - its inner Digital LPF. My aim is not to add additional LPF if possible.Is is that you are aiming for the ''sweet spot'' with transformer roll-off around 20Khz instead of the widest FR, avoiding filtering after the transformer?
Yes, you can, but the output level will be respectively high.Also should I naturally use higher (32k) i/v resistor with 9038pro (4x output) and 1:4? as you say it will require some tweaking but that would be logical starting place?
Because there is the limitation by your next stage' impedance. If you will load transformer to the really high impedance like oscilloscope, then you will see the wave level dependance from resistor value adequatelly.i think I am confusing the impact of the I/V resistor value, in that higher or lower resistance will not result in more or less voltage linearly...
The question remains that if 4 times the current with Pro version will result in 4 times the voltage why not use 1:1?
In terms of low DCR the primary coil in my transformer I can make is about 20H. In this case 1:1 will be quiter than 1:4.
What is the sensitivity (in Volts) of your amplifier to achieve the maximum output level?500r is giving about the same output as the old op amp output stage, I use headphones so output level is probably very low.
thanks for helping me out.