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My "good" and "bad" recordings

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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