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Re: Good Response Soundmind.

"How do you square this with significant numbers of people prefering the sound of a heavily distorting valve amplifiers to an inaudibly distorting solid state amplifier?

I suggest this is a foolish statement to make based on one article from a non-technical journal when there is so much contradictory information including, I suspect, your own experiences with the sound of valve and solid state amplifiers. "

And I would suggest that you don't understand my statement because the answer is obvious if you think about it. 1) It is an assumption on your part that valve amps are "heavily distorting" compared to SS amps. At what power (it matters for amps with no feedback you know)? In which frequency range? 2)It is an assumption on your part that SS amps are inaudibly distorting. Not many people even here in the PHP would agree with this statement (I know John Curl, JJ, and hell even Dan Banquer would not agree with you that SS amps are not audibly distorting).

One argument is that while both are distorting and it is audible that one is more audibly damaging to the sound than the other. Clear enough for you? Howard made it clear that while none of the distorted tracks were "euphonic" compared to the original, he also made it clear that some distortion types he added were less pleasant than others. The ones that were the least pleasant contained high order and/or odd order harmonics. Not such a great surprise unless you think those levels to be inaudible.

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