Output transformer causes ear fatigue?

[TheMagicEight]

From the Mercury Magnetics website:

Did you know... that ear fatigue is related to poor transformer quality? If while playing (or listening to someone play) through an amp you find yourself tiring easily, or the experience seems unpleasant… you are experiencing the tell-tale signs of ear fatigue. It is nature's way of telling you that something's wrong. In nature all sounds are composed of layers of frequencies producing all sorts of harmonics and distortion. Ear fatigue is caused by information commingling with non-musical, unnatural noise that "beats up" your internal mechanisms. The mechanisms that make your hearing possible are working overtime trying to separate the desirable from the less desirable sounds. It's the output transformer's job to emphasize the even-order harmonics and make tones more musical, appealing, and less fatiguing. There's no short-cut to building a quality transformer. The result is less effort by your ear to receive this information.

Any of this true? Seems misleading to me.

 

[Marshall Law]

well, nothing is worse then a shitty sounding amp

 

[Meathead]

So next time my ears hurt from a vocalist singing through a loud "solid state" PA system, I'm gonna tell him he needs a better output transformer.

 

[glip22]

Not really. The OT does affect the tone to a degree. There are also certain frequencies that can damage your hearing more than others. Some amps do put out more of these damaging frequencies but it is generated much more so in the preamp voicings. The Mercury is not going to help your ears if the bad frequecies are already present. It will just ouput them better to cause more damage.