iso audio transformers

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electronewb

Joined Apr 24, 2012
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I know how the basics of a transformer works but I'd like to know how an audio iso transformer eliminate a buzz or a hum in a audio signal?
 

thatoneguy

Joined Feb 19, 2009
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So if it's dirty to begin it will stay dirty?
Yes. A transformer isolates signals. The inductance may reduce very, very high frequencies (out of the audio range), but will not affect the signal. If it did, it would be adding distortion by removing signal frequencies.

There isn't a way for a transformer to detect what is "noise" and what part is "good signal". Even Digital Signal Processing has difficulties removing noise from signal, unless the specific frequencies/amplitude of the noise are known.

White/Pink noise is used in audio systems to equalize the various frequencies to be even based on the speaker response and room reflections. If any component or sub-circuit eliminated random noise, that method would not work.

Common sources of noise in audio are introduced from the power supplies, impedance mis-matching, interference, etc. Good audio amplifiers are built to reduce the levels of created noise added to the signal from these in-amplifier sources to well below the actual signal amplitude so they cannot be heard at listening level.
 
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