Abstract: A high performance oscillator with low frequency pulling at turn on includes an oscillator transistor, a resonating element and a common base buffer transistor. The resonating element of the oscillator is a circuit having a crystal resonator that is connected in parallel with a transformer winding. This resonating element is connected between the emitter of the oscillator transistor and the emitter of the buffer transistor. More specifically, a tap connects the emitter of the buffer transistor to the transformer winding of the resonating element. With this connection, a low transformed power oscillating output is taken from the collector of the buffer transistor with minimized degradation in the symbol of merit for the crystal oscillator.