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RE: SET Amp Sweet Spot

I've been exploring in the last several years the thought that there is indeed a sweet spot in the distortion signature; that is, a little bit of second harmonic improves the listening experience but too much covers up the details.

Whether it's masking of some distortion products, or emulation of the natural acoustic nonlinearities in the ear canal, or something completely different, ... or just another mass hallucination ... remains to be determined.

If true, the effect seems to be highly sensitive to the specific source music - spectrally dense material such as symphonic music wants much less than small-scale chamber music for example. It seems to be highly sensitive to the particular listener as well.

Or maybe it's all bogus after all.

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