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Default Experiences of Class A solid-state ?

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Arny Krueger wrote:

As my distortion measuring gear progressed to residuals
in below 0.01% there was always a mixed bag of
measurable differences. But they were arguably quite
small, given that its often darn hard to hear distortion
below 0.1% or so.


I had a 'revalation' that blew away that idea about 30
years ago.


Do tell.

I made my last try at making small amounts of nonlinear distortion audible
about 5 years ago, and the 0.1% number was the fruit of that effort. My
results aren't that dissimilar from those found in J. Robert Stuart
(Meridian Audio), "Digital Audio for the Future", Audio, 3/98 pp 30-37.
Stuart isn't exactly conservative on this topic. I know of nobody credible
who has claimed lower thresholds for audibilty.