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In Reply to: RE: You'r mostly just rationalizing your preferences posted by morricab on March 28, 2014 at 16:30:34:
The "good" are the ones that have sounded good over the years with a variety of different components; the "bad" are the ones that sound bad with the same variety of components -- not a complicated criterion.
There is no debate that low order distortion sounds benign (if not actually good) and that high order sounds bad, (discordant, irritating): this has been know since Pythagoras demonstrated it 2500 years ago. Cheevers adds some scientific weight to this ... what deeya know.
You, I, and others are debating whether minute amounts of THD including vanishing amounts of high-order, sounds more or less accurate, (more like the recording), than much higher amounts of 2nd order harmonics. We might also debates whether relatively high 2nd or 3rd order distortion cloaks other types of distortion -- though you are disinclined to consider this possibility.
It would seem a matter of definition that less distortion is more accurate than more distortion, however I suppose that weighting by type distortion might be relevant. Maybe Cheever ought to get off his ass and work on this.
Dmitri Shostakovich
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- My "good" and "bad" recordings - Feanor 07:21:33 03/29/14 (48)
- RE: My "good" and "bad" recordings - morricab 13:40:46 03/29/14 (45)
- I have read Cheevers & Geddes - Feanor 07:33:00 03/30/14 (44)
- RE: I have read Cheevers & Geddes - morricab 13:20:37 03/30/14 (43)
- At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - Feanor 13:36:32 03/30/14 (42)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 14:19:36 03/30/14 (41)
- I have ALREADY defined accuracy ... - Feanor 11:10:24 03/31/14 (1)
- RE: I have ALREADY defined accuracy ... - morricab 15:49:08 03/31/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - rick_m 07:57:27 03/31/14 (38)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 15:34:24 03/31/14 (37)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - RGA 21:58:29 04/02/14 (28)
- I grant Morricab that he's less pompous than you, RGA - Feanor 08:24:44 04/03/14 (1)
- If you were not an Ostrich you would not find my post pompous. NT - RGA 17:36:32 04/03/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 08:18:25 04/03/14 (25)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - RGA 18:13:45 04/03/14 (2)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 12:52:44 04/04/14 (1)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - RGA 00:53:14 04/05/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - Disbeliever 09:12:25 04/03/14 (21)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 04:09:23 04/04/14 (2)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - Disbeliever 04:31:57 04/04/14 (1)
- RE:"only Class AB does it for me" - rick_m 13:29:23 04/04/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - RGA 18:28:31 04/03/14 (15)
- Class A to B switching nonsense - Feanor 08:47:40 04/04/14 (10)
- RE: Class A to B switching nonsense - RGA 01:16:01 04/05/14 (0)
- RE: Class A to B switching nonsense - morricab 12:44:06 04/04/14 (8)
- Let's remember the purpose of class A - Feanor 13:36:57 04/04/14 (7)
- RE: Let's remember the purpose of class A - morricab 04:07:52 04/05/14 (5)
- RE: Let's remember the purpose of class A - rick_m 10:23:09 04/05/14 (1)
- RE: Let's remember the purpose of class A - morricab 12:19:22 04/05/14 (0)
- RE: Let's remember the purpose of class A - Disbeliever 06:35:49 04/05/14 (2)
- RE: Let's remember the purpose of class A - morricab 12:37:50 04/05/14 (1)
- RE: Let's remember the purpose of class A - Disbeliever 00:08:53 04/07/14 (0)
- RE: Let's remember the purpose of class A - RGA 01:21:24 04/05/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - Braxus 18:49:24 04/03/14 (3)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - RGA 08:30:35 04/04/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 04:13:31 04/04/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - Disbeliever 03:58:40 04/04/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - rick_m 10:11:22 04/03/14 (1)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 05:15:42 04/04/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - rick_m 21:32:46 03/31/14 (7)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 02:05:04 04/01/14 (3)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - rick_m 07:16:33 04/01/14 (2)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - morricab 10:33:04 04/01/14 (1)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - rick_m 11:00:29 04/01/14 (0)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - Braxus 21:53:24 03/31/14 (2)
- RE: At best Cheever defines the euphonic, not the accurate - rick_m 06:35:32 04/01/14 (0)
- There are many reasons they will carry the brand - morricab 02:06:55 04/01/14 (0)
- RE: My "good" and "bad" recordings - morricab 13:33:13 03/29/14 (1)
- On the subject of masking/cloaking - Feanor 07:25:43 03/30/14 (0)