The spare 80% ones I sent to George were NOS from a company that Townshend had bought the remaining stock and winding m/c's from when they went out of the transformer business. I dont know where they came fromThank you Guido.
I don't know of any source of Ni laminates.
Those I've used were donated by Zeta4. I think he mensioned sourcing them from USA.
George
edit: Here is one source from China
https://www.hongertech.com/ei-type-mu-metal-lamination-for-audio-transformer_p36.html
Data for EI24 core
https://www.hongertech.com/uploadfile/downloads/EI-24.pdf
and they were quite old but I think they were good quality. So its good to see what an excellent job has been done by George to use them. The 49% ones and the few new 80% ones came from a trade supplier in the US and have to be bought in bulk I'm afraid.
Sorry but I dont know of any DIY source but if I do come across one I will let it be known.
ps George, I think that's a good idea to increase the number of windings to 3K.
Hi Geoff
Thank you for replying.
In a week or so, I will have wound the 3k turns over the 80% Ni core. Measurements and listening impression will be posted.
Now attached is the last set of measurements of the 6k turns over the electrical steel core.
Distortion (and linearity) vs signal level at 20Hz, 200Hz, 2kHz
George
Thank you for replying.
In a week or so, I will have wound the 3k turns over the 80% Ni core. Measurements and listening impression will be posted.
Now attached is the last set of measurements of the 6k turns over the electrical steel core.
Distortion (and linearity) vs signal level at 20Hz, 200Hz, 2kHz
George
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Hi Bonsai, thanks for chiming in.
As far as those measurements go, indeed the electrical steel core shows good results.
I had a telephone talk with member 'Magic Bus' who has the electrical steel core AVCs for listening tests.
He described to me what he considers as a strange behaviour of them: When the music makes changes in dynamics, these AVCs seem like holding a memory and being unable to let music die out naturaly (lack of music tails).
I 've heard them only while doing casual listening, where I find they are doing very well.
I haven't auditioned them in detail and when I do, I may be unable to notice nuances.
But in the near future I will try to technically investigate further what Kostas has noticed with this core.
Yesterday I received the 0.1mm magnet wire and the priority is to wind the smaller E-I 25 bobbins for the Ni core with some 3k turns.
Measurements will follow soon
George
As far as those measurements go, indeed the electrical steel core shows good results.
I had a telephone talk with member 'Magic Bus' who has the electrical steel core AVCs for listening tests.
He described to me what he considers as a strange behaviour of them: When the music makes changes in dynamics, these AVCs seem like holding a memory and being unable to let music die out naturaly (lack of music tails).
I 've heard them only while doing casual listening, where I find they are doing very well.
I haven't auditioned them in detail and when I do, I may be unable to notice nuances.
But in the near future I will try to technically investigate further what Kostas has noticed with this core.
Yesterday I received the 0.1mm magnet wire and the priority is to wind the smaller E-I 25 bobbins for the Ni core with some 3k turns.
Measurements will follow soon
George
I had to read this a few times 🤔 , it’s turns and Tesla. We need an SI unit for turns should be the Abra.
Like a compressor effect or something. Impressive in the beginning, I had to listen to it again and again to realize it makes all peaks -of whatever absolute level- to sound aggressive.
