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Can you hear a 1kHz sine wave distortion of 0.85% from tube preamplifier

Can you hear the tube sine distortion of 0.85% in an ABX

  • I can hear a difference and I have an ABX result

    Votes: 14 70.0%

  • I cannot hear a difference

    Votes: 6 30.0%
  • Total voters
    20
  • Poll closed .
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pma said:
The test has confirmed that audibility of low order harmonic distortion highly depends on sound level, is good at low volume (detects <1% H2 distortion on a pure 1kHz tone) and that the ear ability to hear harmonic distortion decreases with higher volume.
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Hi. A question from a newbie. This is due to masking?
I was reading this article and the question raised when I started reading page 6.
 
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