TX-103

Name: Bent Audio TX-103
Brand: Bent Audio

Bent Audio

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Estimated price (community-sourced)

$1,275

About the TX-103

The Bent Audio Stevens & Billington TX-103 is a moving coil step-up transformer featuring copper-wound transformers with a split, four-section primary winding allowing gain ratios of 1:5 (14dB), 1:10 (20dB), and 1:20 (26dB). It offers variable resistive loads of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 80k ohms, plus a custom setting, adjustable via high-quality rotary switches. The TX-103 is praised for its immediacy, delicacy, transparency, purity, speed, intelligibility, and focus, delivering incredible detail and dynamic range without frequency roll-off or tonal coloration. It is designed to be placed behind the turntable to boost the tiny signal immediately before the phono cable. The Bent TX-103 Silver version is The transformer is no longer manufactured by Bent Audio as they have ceased importing the TX-103 from Stevens & Billington, who now reserve them for their own Music First models. The TX-103 is highly regarded among audiophiles for its sonic qualities and remains a sought-after component in high-end vinyl playback systems.

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