Patchbay... With Transformers!?!?

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Hello, I just got an isolated patchbay by Furman with audio transformers in it. How is this different from standard patchbays? Can I use it like a standard patchbay? If not, why? I got it used and had about 5 to choose from. I chose this one because it had transformers and I was told that audio transformers = yummy! ;)
 
i'm guessing the transformers in that patchbay are just used to balance it nothing more nothing less. I doubt any 'transformer yummyness' in those ;)
 
The transformers are for isolation, I believe. You will never have a ground loop through these.
 
Yea, I understand the intended use is for isolation and correction ground loop problems. Too bad about the Yummy factor though... I tried. :-) So, does anyone know if there will be any significant loss running a signal through this transformer? Change in sound? Tha part of my system isn't set up to test at the moment.
 
It will definitely change the sound - how much depends on the quality of the transformers and how revealing your system is.
 
I wouldn't advise running any signals through a transformer without a good reason... impedance matching, ground loop elimination... or a good transformer...

Many people use transfomers to match balanced to un-balanced devices... was this bay designed with that in mind??
 
I just checked the Furman site for patch bays and only found one model... definitely no transfomers... googled with the same result...

Are you sure about this, or are you assuming isolated means transfomers in the signal path...

Isolated is also a patch pair configuration... some call it direct
 
Absolutely. You can see the audio transformers mounted on the boards (one board for each of the 8 ch's). It is the Furman IP-8 patch bay. IP = isolation patchbay. Furman doesn't have the info on thier site (basterds), but there is even a transformer symbole on it.
 
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