Steps ups - to they hold back?

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    Step downs - to they hold back?

    Quick for for all of you with more tech know how than me, which is probably most of you. If you were to use a 120V CD player through a step down transformer in order to allow it to work here in th UK, would I be hampering the players performance in some way or another?

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    In fact, you mean a step down, to go from 240V to 120V.

    In fact, they may aid performance as any isolating transformer can, just with 2:1 rather than 1:1 windings. Things might be different in the case of an amplifier requiring vast dollops of current, but with a CD player I would not expect a decrease in performance.
     
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    Thanks Isaac, amended my post so as not to confuse.

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