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RE: A Story of Harmonics




I'm probably gonna get flamed for this, but...

IMH and unlearned opinion a lot of it comes down to side-harmonics. Class AB amps somehow self-cancel the side harmonics, and thereby reduce the amount of musical information the ear/brain receives. They sure sound like they do. I believe class A amplifiers allow more of the input signal to be reproduced by the speakers, and the ear/brain is able to hear this, discern it, and add it to our muscial enjoyment.

I think a good analogy is MP3 vs WAV. The side-harmonics is exactly what the MP3 guts out of the music. Just throws it away. Anybody who isn't deaf can hear a WAV file sounds better than an MP3.

What I took away from the story was; The violinist thought his Stradavarious sounded more like a real violin on a SET amp, although it still didn't sound like a Stradavarious. Sometimes in life we just have to get by the best we can.

Jamie



Big speakers and little amps blew my mind!

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