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when %thd is audible distortion?
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<blockquote data-quote="West" data-source="post: 7600271" data-attributes="member: 638770"><p>As a chemist (with some physics under my belt) it really depends on you defination of audible... If your talking about human ear's then that is going to be entirely dependant on the person listening to the sound. We age and loose high frequency hearing <a href="http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/" target="_blank">Hearing Test - high frequency sounds measure hearing loss</a></p><p></p><p>Personally I struggle to hear the 17 kHz frequency, but its faintly there for me and I am 26. When you first notice clipping, is entirely based on the frequency that your ears can pick up. Test your hearing to determine the highest frequence you can hear (however I am not sure if all computer speakers can produce these fequencies).</p><p></p><p>If you are talking about an instrument detecting the distortion then that is going to be entirely dependant on the abilities of that device.</p><p></p><p>You are correct noise exists and will alway exist in every audio component and everly electical device that has a voltage based output, there is no way to completely cancel noise out (from a practicle prospective). Although there are companies which try to market 0 noise cables and devices (its a lovely lie).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="West, post: 7600271, member: 638770"] As a chemist (with some physics under my belt) it really depends on you defination of audible... If your talking about human ear's then that is going to be entirely dependant on the person listening to the sound. We age and loose high frequency hearing [URL="http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/"]Hearing Test - high frequency sounds measure hearing loss[/URL] Personally I struggle to hear the 17 kHz frequency, but its faintly there for me and I am 26. When you first notice clipping, is entirely based on the frequency that your ears can pick up. Test your hearing to determine the highest frequence you can hear (however I am not sure if all computer speakers can produce these fequencies). If you are talking about an instrument detecting the distortion then that is going to be entirely dependant on the abilities of that device. You are correct noise exists and will alway exist in every audio component and everly electical device that has a voltage based output, there is no way to completely cancel noise out (from a practicle prospective). Although there are companies which try to market 0 noise cables and devices (its a lovely lie). [/QUOTE]
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