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In the Thread: Another electromagnet driver: Great Vintage Loudspeakers.
Post Subject: Harmonic distortion vs harmonics vs distortion vs wtf?Posted by serenechaos on: 5/30/2009
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 Romy the Cat wrote:


People frequently talk that a higher loading has lower distortions but I do not thing that is has anything to do with distortions. The key in here is that harmonics that are changed with lording – higher loading get “shorter” harmonics, and less idle load has more “fatter” harmonics.  My experiments with electromagnets suggested that they are a bit on the softer side then better perm magnets, therefore if I run electromagnets then I would most likely load the tube lighter with field-coils drivers.

The caT


What is the difference between "distortion," and "harmonics?"
--what I'm asking is what you are defining as "distortion" and as "harmonics" in this context. 

Yes, I know as in how a sinewave of a note contains no harmonics, but when near saturation and clipped, harmonics are created.  
And how these are related acoustically, as the harmonics of a vibrating string are musically related to the note's fundamental frequency-
e.g. the second order harmonic = adds the octave; third order adds the fifth, etc, etc... is what is sometimes called harmonic distortion... 

I don't understand what you're saying that you do not think tube loading has anything to do with distortions...
...but that harmonics get "shorter" Vs "fatter"... 

I'm not sure where i'm getting lost
Are you talking about being able to reproduce harmonics (from the original source)? 
Or the harmonics produced by the amp, and/or driver?

The robert

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