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serenechaos wrote:

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?

An excellent question, Robert! I wish I know the true answer.

The higher amount of harmonics implies higher distortions. The higher amount of harmonics means more power the on own turn get transferred to higher distortions. However, I am not accustomed to operate by the means of distortions. There are many reasons why and one of the major one is because distortions viewed as a subtraction of output to input but I do not feel that it is useful for interpretation parameter. No the last factor is the fact the chance of logging impact the harmonics without any reference to what was at input. So, if with the change of loading the ratio between the second and third harmonics changed, the sound changed then does it mean that the distortions become less or more? Harmonics have reference to auditable, the distortions is not necessary have it at least I am not accustomed to handle it and therefore I dispose of their importance.

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