[rfeenstra]

16500 turns on 52 layers of #40 magnet wire. Ouch!!  Of course, the break was right at the connection on the inside of the coil.  Interestingly, the wire was spliced in layer 8 from the outside.  thought maybe it was a bad splice, but not the case.  it was obviously a new spool of wire as the color changed.  This splice was within a few turns of the previousl layer.  when I uncovered that next layer, there were maybe 20 turns with no insulation - bare copper.  I could lay my meter leads across them and read the short.   Does anyone know what that would have done to the audio in that transformer?  Would it have reduced signal level significantly by sucking up some of the magnetic field?  I'm interested to know!