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RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points

Inspired by some conversations here, last year I read a book on hearing psychology. I was particularly interested about masking and it was covered but not specifically about how low harmonics might mask high order ones. It would be really interesting to quantify the effect

Here's a thought experiment: a 1kHz signal generates 1% second harmonic as well as all the harmonics above that and we suppose that the second harmonic is large enough in amplitude to mask the fifth harmonic. Whatever that amplitude difference, they are separated in frequency by 3kHz. But, the fundamental is only 4kHz away and it is 40dB larger than the second harmonic. It seems more likely that the fundamental would mask more?


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