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RE: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD?

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In Reply to: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? posted by Archimago on January 25, 2020 at 12:03:34:

Results up now...

Bottom line:
67 total listeners responded. Most people felt they heard a difference, but ~20% could not hear a difference even at up to 3% THD added to the music.

Of those who heard a difference, there was a meaningful trend towards preferring low distortion. High distortion was described by many as sounding worse. In terms of magnitude, the bias against higher distortion was somewhere between 0.02%/-75dB and 0.3%/-50dB. Other nuances reported in the posts, but it is good to see that among audiophiles, higher fidelity did matter and sounded "better" :).

Thanks to everyone who participated!

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Topic - INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? - Archimago 12:03:34 01/25/20 ( 9)

RE: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? - jrlaudio 23:16:50 06/7/20 ( 0)
RE: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? - Archimago 06/7/20 21:54:53 06/7/20 ( 0)
RE: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? - Archimago 10:42:44 04/18/20 ( 0)
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RE: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? - JURB 13:41:02 02/16/20 ( 0)
RE: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? - itolduso1000timesb4 06:18:37 02/3/20 ( 0)
Been there, done that - E-Stat 12:58:04 01/26/20 ( 1)
- RE: Been there, done that - Archimago 08:13:55 02/16/20 ( 0)
RE: INVITATION: Can you hear high THD? - LtMandella 07:21:12 01/26/20 ( 0)