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That one is interesting, do you have an example?

I don't know of one. But we have to be clear on what is meant by 'good'...

This thread initially was aimed, more or less, at Stereophile and their measurement regime. Mostly I think we can look at THD- if less than 0.005% at full power, that is good. Is 1.0% at full power bad?

I've yet to experience an amplifier with super low THD that sounds good. I would not mind hearing one that **did** sound good with distortion that low, but right now I don't think such a thing exists.

So as a result we have to deal with amps that are low in the distortions that the ear cares about, and are otherwise probably fairly high in the sorts of distortions that the ear does not care about. The latter however are likely to measure "poorly".

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