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In Reply to: Why posted by Ralph on October 29, 2020 at 13:59:50:
2nd and 3rd order will not mask higher orders until the volume goes op (the masking effect is level dependent). At lower levels those higher orders will be exposed to our hearing.
I think the difference with tube amps (without feedback...with feedback it can sound as strident as SS amps can) is that at lower power outputs the high order harmonics are much lower than typical in an SS amp relative to the lower orders.
There seems to be more than masking at work as it seems the pattern itself seems to matter (hearing is much more than just the mechanism in your ear...there is anticipation of what to hear based on experience).
Jean Hiraga discussed this (he called it monotonic, I would call it exponential decay) and Cheever also highlighted this and goes into a lot more depth about the perception aspects and level dependence.
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- RE: Why - morricab 07:24:48 11/03/20 (1)
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