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RE: Thorsten would have to explain it...but

One can demonstrate the euphonic effects of second harmonic distortion by deliberately adding it. This can isolate the effect of this distortion from artifacts of amplifier design. A similar test can be done by inducing jitter, but this is much harder to do since jitter is a complicated phenomenon. Other possible "improvements" include deliberately adding noise to the signal for its masking effects. (This is not to be confused with proper use of noise as part of dithering, which is a recording process.) Experiments can be done to sort out these individual psychoacoustic effects.

I might consider an SET system if someone can show that it is possible to produce undistorted peak SPL of 115 dB without using colored transducers such as horns. I listen to Mahler symphonies. SETs would probably be fine if I confined my listening to solo guitar and harpsichord. By the way, I find the vast amount of my music collection to be pleasing and many recordings sound quite realistic. Only a minority of recordings are brutally ugly or banal, and reflect mistakes in my purchase decisions. It is usually possible to weed out poor music or performances on download purchases from sites that allow listening to a good selection of sound clips.





Tony Lauck

"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar

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