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RE: If you have a "dead zone"

However, that means the performance around zero crossing is very non-linear and will create a lot of distortion that is of a very obnoxious nature.

Look at the stereophile measurements I shared above. You can see the sharp discontinuity they have around the zero crossing. As one can imagine, this is essentially only high order dissonant distortion components. Even very low levels of these harmonics will audibly damage the sound.

As Tre was pointing out, even AB is not putting the bias in a very linear part of the transistors transfer function, which will also result in increased higher order harmonics.

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