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The secret to "good" sound ISN'T 0% higher order sidebands ...

... It's a few percentage of 2nd order.

One thing discovered by Pythagoras 2500 years ago was that high-order harmonics sounded bad -- harsh, discordant. Nobody is really arguing with Morricab and his ilk that high-order sounds good, only that there is some level where it's inaudible.

But other thing that Pythagoras discovered way back then was that 2nd and even 3rd order made the sound mellower and richer. The fact that Morri et al. refuse to admit is that the style of amp they prefer sounds "good" because it has 2nd order, not because it doesn't have immeasurable amounts of high-order.





Dmitri Shostakovich



Edits: 09/20/15

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