Cattle and tube amps

[hellbender]

Why do some advertisments refer to transformers as "cattle"? Something lost in translation?

 

[Galu]

Could you put this in context - the full description from an ad or a link to an ad?

 

[mike567]

cattle, bile. fever and many other terms that don't translate well.
many chi-fi ads on ali-express, amazon and ebay


from ali-express


1pcs Tube Amplifier Single-ended Output Transformer 5K Output Cow for 6P1 6P14 6P6 0-4-8 Ohm DIY Vacuum Tube Amplifier

 

[Galu]

Yes Mike, I contributed to the 'bile' and 'fever' discussion on this forum.

I'd still like to see the 'cattle' reference in context though.

 

[hellbender]

Cattle shield

One ad refered to transformer cover as "cattle shield"

 

[hellbender]

Shielding cattle

1x Transformer Cover Tube Amplifiers Chassis Shielding Cattle 107*107*115mm High

Opps, I meant shielding cattle

 

[JMFahey]

Please, direct links or cut-paste or it didn´t happen.

 

[Galu]

The meaningful word is the 牛 which is the cow (cattle), describing something amazing or super cool.

In English we would refer to it as "the cat's pyjamas".

 

[vinylkid58]

Or in this case "the cattle's pajamas".

jeff

 

[TG]

As far as I understand, 牛 means both "cow/bull/cattle" and "adapter/transformer"

 

[Galu]

变压器 is transformer in Mandarin Chinese and 适配器 is adapter, but your statement seems plausible.

 

[audiowize]

Mooo!

 

[TG]

变压器 is transformer in Mandarin Chinese and 适配器 is adapter, but your statement seems plausible.

Well, it is used in this context throughout the whole Chi-net, so it doesn't look like a jargon term to me.
Still I'd like to hear from someone who speaks Chinese properly

 

[nofunatparties]

Well, it is used in this context throughout the whole Chi-net, so it doesn't look like a jargon term to me.
Still I'd like to hear from someone who speaks Chinese properly

I hear someone calling me? I am not a proper Chinese speaker with Beijing accent, but I am a native one. As far as I know,

Chi-fi originates from HongKong and Guangzhou where people speak Cantonese. In Cantonese, 'former' out of 'trans-former' sounds like 'fo neo' which in written Chinese is 火牛. In Chinese culture, 火（fire）means energy and 牛 is a work cow to Chinese like a work horse to westerns. So 火牛（牛 for short） was logically accepted to represent transformer or power supply with transformer inside.
But nowadays it's not common to call PS/adapter 牛， what you see online normally refers to transformer, like 环牛(环 is toroidal， toroidal transformer), or 方牛（方 is square, EI transformer) and 电源牛（电源is power supply， the transformer inside the PS）

 

[TG]

wendysire523, thank you!
So I wasn't that wrong, which is remarkable given that my knowledge of Chinese dialects/languages is limited to the Google Translate

 

[JMFahey]

I hear someone calling me? I am not a proper Chinese speaker with Beijing accent, but I am a native one. As far as I know,

Chi-fi originates from HongKong and Guangzhou where people speak Cantonese..... In Chinese culture, 火（fire）means energy and 牛 is a work cow to Chinese like a work horse to westerns. ....

EXCELLENT and THANKS for the clarification

 

[smoking-amp]

I wonder what they call "Sweep tubes" over there? Cow Dung?

 

[Tubelab_com]

They are only sweep tubes here. Much of the world refers to them as line output tubes.

SWEEP refers to sweeping the LINE across the face of the CRT. There are (were) 525 lines in a US NTSC TV set, where about 500 of them were useful. Other countries used anywhere from 400 to 625 lines.

 

[smoking-amp]

English to Chinese translation:
Sweep tube line output => line of output like cow peeing and walking, Moo

Chinese to English translation:
line of output like cow peeing and walking, Moo => relieving bad boy behavior in public, with good audio effects



They are probably still wondering why we buy such things.

 

[mike567]

Kind of nice to know how some of these terms get lost during translation.
thanks Galu and Wendyshire523