Hi, Phillip, I'm finding the imaging to be better than any other space I've owned. It's great fun. I have to look to make sure the centre speaker isn't on <smile> when I'm listening to stereo recordings with a centre-placed vocal. I don't DO grooved restorations. The 1200 is there for fun. I DO tape restorations, but once in a while a client wants me to do an LP--and I transfer some of my own LPs. I don't have (m)any 78s. The isolation transformer has an electrostatic shield. It is from Marcus Transformers in Montreal. It is a 7.5kVA unit and is fed off an aux panel with a dual 40A breaker at 240V and it gives me 120V from that, so I'm isolated from noise and any loss-of-neutral "accidents" It was as much to protect the equipment as anything else. Cheers, Richard At 09:49 AM 6/11/2005, you wrote: >Really nice! How's the imaging? Can you tell me more on the isolation >transformer? Being a vinyl junkie, it'd be nice to see you with a 301 or >TD124 with your 1200 (you don't do much with old wax?). >Phillip Richard L. Hess email: [log in to unmask] Vignettes Media web: http://www.richardhess.com/tape/ Aurora, Ontario, Canada (905) 713 6733 1-877-TAPE-FIX