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Re: The paper can't be that good and here's why...

Mfc, I'm glad that you saw the significance of this. For decades, I have tried to understand why audio components sound the way that they do, and higher order odd harmonics have been noted as a big problem for the last 70 years or more. In recent years, because of design constraints, higher order distortion has creeped in, and is hidden by the 'artificial' noise floor created by THD testing. It is artificial, because we would not hear the vast majority of the noise added into the THD measurement. Today, I measure wires that have almost as much 7th harmonic distortion as the residual third harmonic distortion in my test setup, which means that they generate MORE 7th harmonic distortion than third harmonic. Could it be important? Maybe.
The book that I mentioned is available at Amazon.com for $10 or less, used.


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