monkuboy
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Exactly. When most people hear/read the word distortion they think of very audible effects like driver breakup. Second harmonic distortion simply isn't that sort of 'audible' distortion. However, it is still technically speaking a distortion, and as Tyll says, if you know what you're listening for it can be heard.
Distortion is neither inherently good or bad, it just means a reproduction of the original deviates from that original in some way. So basically anything we listen to through an audio system is distorted.