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*Technical discussion*....what makes up distortion?
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<blockquote data-quote="goodsound" data-source="post: 1362973" data-attributes="member: 565204"><p>Its not distorting its just playing fine - thats how a square wave signal will sound. Now if you are playing a sine wave and the amplifer clips heavily (which results into kind of a square wave), then that can be called distortion.</p><p></p><p>A square wave is nothing but a rapidly alternating <strong>DC</strong>. A 100hz square wave with an amplitude of 5V means the signal switches from +5VDC to -5VDC 100 times per second and the "switch" is instantaneous.</p><p></p><p>This is different from a regular (AC) sine wave of the same frequency and amplitude because the transition from +5 to -5 would be gradual and continous.</p><p></p><p>Now a square wave might damage your tweeter but thats a different thing...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodsound, post: 1362973, member: 565204"] Its not distorting its just playing fine - thats how a square wave signal will sound. Now if you are playing a sine wave and the amplifer clips heavily (which results into kind of a square wave), then that can be called distortion. A square wave is nothing but a rapidly alternating [B]DC[/B]. A 100hz square wave with an amplitude of 5V means the signal switches from +5VDC to -5VDC 100 times per second and the "switch" is instantaneous. This is different from a regular (AC) sine wave of the same frequency and amplitude because the transition from +5 to -5 would be gradual and continous. Now a square wave might damage your tweeter but thats a different thing... [/QUOTE]
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