Folks have opined for decades why we hear distortion in our audio systems. Of course there are many of the usual theories, you know, clipping and speaker distortion, Vibration, EFI/EMI, comb filter effects, electron tube distortions, jitter, THD, you name it. Of course many of those reasons are TRUE. The problem with all of those theories, as nice and scientific as they might sound, is that most audio system actually distort fairly quickly as the volume knob is turned up, the distortion usually becoming quite evident at rather MODEST LEVELS, I'd say a shade above an average listening level. Now, I totally understand if you say, I don't hear any distortion even at above moderate levels. The distortion I'm referring to is distortion that has ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Thus, we have become accustomed to it our whole lives and hear through it, as it were.
Things are much much worse than we have been led to believe and worse than we have concluded through our own experience. Perhaps you've noticed that ALMOST ALL systems, even ones where the owner might swear up and down that the distortion has been reduced to near ZERO, distort when the volume is pushed up past a certain point, that point in fact NOT that loud as to be confused with clipping or speaker distortion or any such thing. Hel-loo! The distortion actually occurs at a fairly modest volume level. That should not happen. The reason for this distortion at rather modest loudness levels actually has NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE AUDIO SIGNAL! It has nothing to do with the signal in the electronics, with the AC in the house power or power cords, in cabling or anywhere else in the system. This distortion is produced by information fields that interfere with the listener's hearing ability. The good sound, the real sound his system is producing is in the room, the acoustic waves are very accurate and complete. But because the INFORMATION WAVES are interfering with the listener's brain, confusing and affecting his PERCEPTION OF THE SOUND, what he actually hears is a more compressed, more distorted and noisier version of what's in the room. INFORMATION FIELDS are not electromagnetic in nature, and they do not attenuate over distance, even great distance. They are somewhat like the Higgs field in that respect.
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica
Folks have opined for decades why we hear distortion in our audio systems. Of course there are many of the usual theories, you know, clipping and speaker distortion, Vibration, EFI/EMI, comb filter effects, electron tube distortions, jitter, THD, you name it. Of course many of those reasons are TRUE. The problem with all of those theories, as nice and scientific as they might sound, is that most audio system actually distort fairly quickly as the volume knob is turned up, the distortion usually becoming quite evident at rather MODEST LEVELS, I'd say a shade above an average listening level. Now, I totally understand if you say, I don't hear any distortion even at above moderate levels. The distortion I'm referring to is distortion that has ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Thus, we have become accustomed to it our whole lives and hear through it, as it were.
Things are much much worse than we have been led to believe and worse than we have concluded through our own experience. Perhaps you've noticed that ALMOST ALL systems, even ones where the owner might swear up and down that the distortion has been reduced to near ZERO, distort when the volume is pushed up past a certain point, that point in fact NOT that loud as to be confused with clipping or speaker distortion or any such thing. Hel-loo! The distortion actually occurs at a fairly modest volume level. That should not happen. The reason for this distortion at rather modest loudness levels actually has NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH THE AUDIO SIGNAL! It has nothing to do with the signal in the electronics, with the AC in the house power or power cords, in cabling or anywhere else in the system. This distortion is produced by information fields that interfere with the listener's hearing ability. The good sound, the real sound his system is producing is in the room, the acoustic waves are very accurate and complete. But because the INFORMATION WAVES are interfering with the listener's brain, confusing and affecting his PERCEPTION OF THE SOUND, what he actually hears is a more compressed, more distorted and noisier version of what's in the room. INFORMATION FIELDS are not electromagnetic in nature, and they do not attenuate over distance, even great distance. They are somewhat like the Higgs field in that respect.
Geoff Kait
Machina Dynamica