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RE: Why waste the time?

Just to play the devil's advocate, how about designs like Doug Self's Blameless amplifier, which literally has almost no measureable distortion, and more or less ideal square wave response?

I appreciate that a perceptible amount of higher order harmonic distortion is going to be worse than a perceptible amount of lower order harmonic distortion, that point is proved beyond any doubt, and is not the subject of any argument.

However I would propose that when you compare an SET amplifier, with a THD in the 5% range to a solid state amplifier which has 1000 times less distortion, what really will explain the difference in perceived sound quality of the SET is the *presence* of distortion, not the absence of it. The higher order harmonics in the solid state amplifier may be present, but they are well below the noise floor of the SET amplifier.


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