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RE: Read his thesis why don't you?

I can only say that having measured rare violins myself, the harmonic content of that particular instrument is very different from the monotonic decay the ear's mechanical mechanism makes. So, even if it did cut that out, there would be plenty to distinguish the rest...plus the levels are not really comparable. A violin playing at 85dB will be much louder than the ear's self generated harmonics.

However, I suspect that the wet supercomputer between your ears has other ways to determine the source and correlation between harmonics from the violin vs. harmonics from the ear mechanism. Could be related to phase adn locality proximity etc. etc. This could also then be why such small levels of amplifier distortion are still having an audible impact.


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