In Reply to: Why don't we see "distortion" measurements for speakers? posted by LtMandella on August 24, 2020 at 22:30:44:
At the risk of stirring things up -- i.e., for better or for worse -- ASR is offering assessment of HD in loudspeakers.
HD levels tend to be high, especially at lower frequencies ("doubling" -- at very low frequencies, the output of the system at the fundamental frequency may be quite low, but there is lots of second harmonic output).
There is (I would say) controversy as to the audibility or "impact" of fairly high levels (> 1%) HD in loudspeakers -- depending upon the fundamental frequency, of course.
It's still something of a can of worms, as best I can tell.
all the best,
mrh
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- So... some folks display them - mhardy6647 08/25/2004:51:50 08/25/20 (9)
- RE: So... some folks display them - CG 06:40:00 08/25/20 (7)
- RE: So... some folks display them - LtMandella 09:15:13 09/11/20 (0)
- I disagree that instruments are distortion generators - 3db 11:53:02 08/28/20 (1)
- RE: I disagree that instruments are distortion generators - rivervalley817 12:23:03 08/28/20 (0)
- Multi-tone distortion testing. - MikeCh 21:11:07 08/25/20 (3)
- RE: Multi-tone distortion testing. - Jon Risch 19:04:24 08/27/20 (0)
- RE: Multi-tone distortion testing. - LtMandella 11:24:08 08/26/20 (0)
- RE: Multi-tone distortion testing. - CG 06:16:10 08/26/20 (0)
- Here's a loudspeaker (T)HD calculator -- convert % HD to dB - mhardy6647 04:54:18 08/25/20 (0)