darrenyeats wrote: > Hi Anry, > I now have some more free time, so I'm up for more chinwag. You're going > to need some more eggs! Please make it a nourishing omelette, appetising > if possible. > > Thanks for your exposition on the semantics of HD and IMD. > > It seems you agree nevertheless that Linkwitz takes a HD measurement and > uses it as a criterion for driver selection. How can this be completely > irrelevant? >
This is my last reply to you because you are obviously not capable of comprehending my posts. I've said how and why *HD is relevant*. So your issue is basically about you arguing with your misapprehensions. One last time. THD and IM are actually analogous, and have the same basic cause. Their interrelationship varies with the circumstance. They are just different ways of looking at the same potentially important problem: nonlinear distortion. In practice workers naturally gravitate towards measuring one or the other one depending on their preferences and experiences. It is possible that measuring just one or the other can yield very low numbers when there is still audible nonlinear distortion. For example, if a device has limited HF response it is possible for the harmonics to be filtered out by the device, but the nonlinearity is still there. A relevant IM test will reveal the truth which is that the device is audibly nonlinear, even when there is vanishing harmonic distortion. The converse situation can exist, but it seems to me it is harder to contrive. > > Your last post was interesting, but I don't see how it explains why this > practice of Linkwitz is completely irrelevant. Since *I never said that* and have already once before *specifically denied it* with examples and explanations, you are obviously talking utter nonsense. I deserve a public apology for you wasting my time and that of any engaged reader of this forum, which you are obviously not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ arnyk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64365 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106914 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
