In article , Keith G
wrote:

Here's an interesting and well-written article that should have the
AntiSEpTics foaming at one or more of their body orifices:

http://www.stereophile.com/tubepoweramps/196wavelength/


This bit is particularly interesting: "Then there's the interesting
issue of distortion products. SETs include even- and odd-order
distortion products in their outputs (as in nature, so to speak), while
push-pull circuits cancel out even-order distortion by design, leaving
only the less musical odd-order products intact. Now look...there's
something to this. It's suggested that the sound of single-ended
triodes has much to do with their delivery-intact-of the full spectrum
of distortion products.

The problem with the above is twofold:

1) It confuses an alteration of an existing sound with the original.

2) It ignores intermod when more than one note is being played.

The "suggestion" is, I think, a fairly old one. Alas, it makes little sense
in practice... Unless the argument is simply that some people like
intermodulation distortion. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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