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Anyone use 100v or 220v gear with a transformer?
I've heard several pieces with transformers over the years. I recently had a Reimyo CD player and a Airtight preamp that was 100V. Both were sold after I heard my friends 117v Airtight in comparison. Both had the same tubes and it was in the same ... 
Anyone use 100v or 220v gear with a transformer?
As usual bad advice reigns supreme. Not that I think anyone here is purposely being misleading... they just must not be capable of hearing it. I suppose that makes them lucky. Regardless- a transformer will absolutely diminish performance. But 117... 
Anyone use 100v or 220v gear with a transformer?
Electrically it'll work. Sonically it will not. I can't beleive nobody hears the degradation using a step up/down transformer causes. Its not subtle. I'd try to find a 120v unit instead.