Most people can tolerate a remarkably high level of even-harmonic distortion, & many actually prefer a touch of it, but odd-harmonic distortion is universally unhappy-making. (One of the characteristics of old vacuum-tube audio amplifiers is a certain level of even-harmonic distortion, generally 1%—5%, & listeners often enjoy the sound more than that from amplifiers tuned to a lower THD.)
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Date: 2013-02-26 09:08 pm (UTC)