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Re: I think it's a fairly simple idea

If someone is seriously trying to build a state of the art audio component, they aren't putting the transformer in the same chassis as the active circuitry anyhow. The only reason that one would do this would be for cost cutting reasons. Other than that, there is such a thing as shielding.

Once again, the toroid is relegated to "mid-fi" gear. How it found its' way into "HIGH end" is a mystery. Could be that the manufacturers fed the reviewers lies and the reviewers regurgitated the same crap to the masses*. This is how "marketing propaganda" becomes "fact" and another "audio myth" is born. This one in specific would be that "toroids are better".

As close as the toroidal transformer is located to the active circuitry in most gear, there really is no advantage. If you look at the designs using iron core's, even though they may throw off more of a field ( which grows proportionately to the current being drawn, just like a toroid ), they are also ( typically ) further away from the active circuitry. As such, would you rather be further away from a stronger field or closer to a weaker field??? Both are highly dispruptive, hence my comments about out-boarding the transformer. Sean
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* How many "reviews" do you see that look like they were written by the marketing department of the manufacturer who's products are being "reviewed" ???

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