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RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points

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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