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It has been a long time since I read of these things (I think they were in latin) and I'm sure/I hope there's been more research since but my understanding is that, yes, something like a 140dB dynamic range might be possible from a tone played very loudly to one played very softly (even below background noise) but certainly not simultaneously!
IIRC, the ear has a working dynamic range much, much less than that, which depends on the loudest sound and tone spacing. In those terms hearing a harmonic 140dB below the fundamental is just not plausible.

This masking effect is interesting because I wonder if the relatively high levels of 2HD & 3HD in valve amps swamps-out the subjectively deleterious effects of higher harmonics, rather than the claim that these amps are free of high order products.

13DoW

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