wakibaki
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I've just been reading some stuff on Roger Sanders site. http://sanderssoundsystems.com/technical-white-papers/esl-amp-bias-wp. Sanders Sound Systems make ESL systems, everything but sources.
What particularly caught my attention was this... 'Keep in mind that for most humans, the threshold of distortion detection is around 3%. If very special test tones are used, some people can hear about 1% distortion. No test has ever shown that a human can hear distortion levels below 1% under any circumstances'.
Being interested in the subject, I always read any material on audio perception that comes my way, but this is the first definitive statement I have ever come across regarding the audibility of distortion. I take it he intends harmonic distortion in this case.
Does anybody have any information to support or contradict these statements?
w
What particularly caught my attention was this... 'Keep in mind that for most humans, the threshold of distortion detection is around 3%. If very special test tones are used, some people can hear about 1% distortion. No test has ever shown that a human can hear distortion levels below 1% under any circumstances'.
Being interested in the subject, I always read any material on audio perception that comes my way, but this is the first definitive statement I have ever come across regarding the audibility of distortion. I take it he intends harmonic distortion in this case.
Does anybody have any information to support or contradict these statements?
w