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In Reply to: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points posted by 13th Duke of Wymbourne on May 21, 2025 at 23:38:20:
The guy who said 'if something measures well and sounds poor you are measuring the wrong thing' deserved a knee in the groin for not finding out what those things are.
That was the head engineer of HH Scott, Daniel vonRecklinghausen. Not sure if he didn't find out; the HH Scott stuff has a pretty good following.
I'm of the opinion that if you know the harmonic spectrum at 1 Watt and 6dB below full power, if you know the distortion vs frequency then you can get a pretty good idea of how an amp will sound.
BTW you mentioned something about lower ordered harmonics masking higher orders. This sort of thing has been known in speakers for a long time; I see no reason why the ears's masking of harmonics with a speaker or an amp would be any different.
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- RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points - Ralph 05/22/2511:14:00 05/22/25 (17)
- RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points - PaulF70 08:38:25 06/1/25 (3)
- Totally agree! - Ralph 08:24:29 06/2/25 (0)
- Distortion vs power - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 11:54:51 06/1/25 (1)
- RE: Distortion vs power - morricab 08:49:28 06/17/25 (0)
- RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 18:11:01 05/23/25 (12)
- RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points - Ralph 10:46:12 05/27/25 (10)
- RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points - morricab 12:32:27 06/1/25 (1)
- Correct. - Ralph 08:22:36 06/2/25 (0)
- Pedantically, our ears use the pressure of the sound to sense the sound pressure - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 16:54:56 05/29/25 (7)
- Its easy to show that higher ordered harmonics are what the ear uses - Ralph 08:26:40 05/30/25 (6)
- RE: Its easy to show that higher ordered harmonics are what the ear uses - morricab 12:36:12 06/1/25 (3)
- :) so which is it? - Ralph 08:21:22 06/2/25 (2)
- RE: :) so which is it? - morricab 07:50:41 06/5/25 (1)
- You misread my prior post. Please go back and read it again. nt - Ralph 09:12:14 06/20/25 (0)
- I retain my title as Most Pedantic Inmate - 13th Duke of Wymbourne 19:28:47 05/31/25 (1)
- RE: I retain my title as Most Pedantic Inmate :) - Ralph 08:57:38 06/2/25 (0)
- RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points - morricab 10:05:15 05/26/25 (0)