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In Reply to: Enormous Harmonic Distortion with Magnepan posted by vandendungenmuziek@kpnplanet.nl on October 3, 2023 at 04:37:21:
All woofers create harmonic distortion, a good deal of it. It's caused by nonlinearities of various kinds. There's no such thing as a perfect spring, or a perfectly uniform magnetic field. The lower the frequency, the more air the speaker has to push, and speakers become less linear as they reach the limits of their travel. The diaphragm in a .5 is smaller than the diaphragm in a 1.x, so it has to travel further to produce the same bass level.
But -- if you can't hear it, why worry about it?
Not all distortion is audible and of the distortion that is, not all of it is annoying.
Some of it can actually be rather pleasing, e.g., second harmonic can add richness to the sound. This should hardly be surprising, since musical instruments generate harmonic distortion up the wazoo -- it's one of the things that gives them their characteristic timbre.
You could learn to identify the distortion easily enough -- that kind of analytical listening is a skill -- but then it would just annoy you, because a little bell would be going off in your head saying, "That's distortion" and something that hadn't bothered you would begin to.
So I wouldn't worry about it. The move to a 1.x is a significant upgrade, though, for a number of reasons beyond lower distortion. I'd just look at it in a positive way -- you're getting better sound! The bigger the Maggie, the deeper the bass, and the cleaner it sounds.
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