[HN Gopher] Audio Distortion and THD Explained ___________________________________________________________________ Audio Distortion and THD Explained Author : bryanrasmussen Score : 11 points Date : 2021-11-28 07:49 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.soundguys.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.soundguys.com) | em3rgent0rdr wrote: | takeaway at end: | | > Measured THD doesn't appear to correlate particularly with our | reviewers' subjective impressions. > It is rare to find | commercially available headphones where harmonic distortion is | even an issue worth drawing attention to. | | Turns out most listeners can't tell or aren't bothered as long as | the quality is good-enough. | smackeyacky wrote: | It's astonishing to read some of the online audio forums and | see just how much garbage is touted about noise in hi-fi | systems, although most of the forums seem to have moved on from | worrying about THD measurements and onto a variety of invented | problems. | | - people who can "hear" different ethernet cables to their | system. Audiophile ethernet switches. - endless wittering about | jitter, despite nobody ever getting a measurement of jitter in | a system newer than about 1985 that would possibly be audible. | | I'm not sure where most of it comes from other than some | unscrupulous operators making devices that "solve" your jitter | or ethernet issues with nonsense products that can't possibly | work in the way the manufacturer describes. | | It has made most of the forums worthless as sources of decent | information about hi-fi. Any suggestion that the worries about | jitter or digital cables (or even good old RCA cables) cannot | possibly affect what you are hearing are shouted down by hordes | of screaming jitter monkeys. Something of a shame if you were a | beginner and wanted some concrete information about what you | should be looking for in a hi-fi. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-29 23:00 UTC)