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RE: Distortion and frequency response are good starting points

Cheever states on page 40 of his thesis: "The aural harmonics play a more prominent role than the ears masking mechanism. There was no correlation between age and sex in these or other studies of aural harmonics." He defines aural harmonics on the preceding few pages before page 40.

He also notes that the aural harmonics order and amplitude are dependent on SPL. So, SPL needs to be accounted for in the metric because the ear gets less sensitive at higher SPL because of the increased amplitude and order of the aural harmonics.

It is interesting to note that Cheever makes a prediction (remember this thesis is from 2001) that single ended designs will continue to become more and more widespread. He was bang on because I saw a whole lot of SET tube love at Munich this (and last few) year.

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