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hagtech wrote:

Ok, I am again confused with the terminology.  You seem to relate reflections (indirect sound) to orders of distortion.  That is, 2nd order distortion has something to do with the first reflection of sound.  I see these events as independent.  The 2nd order distortion of an amplifier creates harmonics that are not present in the source.  This changes the character of the sound.  Reflections and room reverberations also change the character of the sound, but in a different way.  How are these two things connected?

The 2nd order distortion of an amplifier creates harmonics that are not present in the source. (Amplification)

The first reflection of sound creates harmonics that are not present in the source. (Live sound)

Both add something new to sound, but…

The reflection mixed with sound and heard as a part of sound. The distortions never mix with sound (particularly the higher order) and always heard as the independent sound.

Why it is so? Presumably because neither dispositions nor reflections are auditable and their volumes are completely irrelevant. What we head is not the fact of distortion but the signature of the mechanism that creates the distortions/ reflections. I think, and obviously I am not expert on this thinking, that instead of worry about the fact of the distortion we should wary about making the distortion with “human face” and make them to imitate the acoustic contamination of live sound.

Do not ask me how, this is the game of you guys.....

Rgs,
The Cat

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