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Re: Harmonic Distortion Measurements of BA Drivers
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2013, 02:57:31 AM »

One thing I've been wondering about: is there a correlation between ringing in a particular frequency, vs measured THD behaviour in that same spot?
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Re: Harmonic Distortion Measurements of BA Drivers
« Reply #11 on: August 13, 2013, 03:00:11 AM »

No strong correlation I see. It does happen sometimes. For example, if there's ringing at 6k, we may see high 2nd harmonic distortion at 3k.
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Re: Harmonic Distortion Measurements of BA Drivers
« Reply #12 on: August 13, 2013, 05:44:45 AM »

How come Sonoves' result is the distortion is cleanly under 0.001% from 2.5kHz to ∞?!

http://sonove.angry.jp/ER4P/ER4P_distortion.gif

http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-thd.htm
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Re: Harmonic Distortion Measurements of BA Drivers
« Reply #13 on: August 20, 2013, 09:46:14 AM »

D2 and D3 are way different, but the rest nearly match... Different levels?
Sonove measured at -20 dB but what is 0 dB?

The numbers from Rin are close, for ER-4B: http://rinchoi.blogspot.com/2012/03/etymotic-research-er-4b.html

And those ER-4S numbers are much closer to Purrin's - it's ER-4S though and you will have to subtract some to get -dB, then convert to %.
http://sonove.angry.jp/AKG_K3003/dist_ER4S.gif
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Re: Harmonic Distortion Measurements of BA Drivers
« Reply #14 on: August 20, 2013, 10:00:23 AM »

Is the effect of harmonic distortion which is impactful on sine-waves actually visible in square-waves?

Square waves would mostly show odd order distortion, if at all. But frequency response would change their shape way more, so they're not really that useful, except maybe for subbass to show  the slew rate equivalent of the device and bass sustain. You would see rounded for boosted slow bass, falling for poor sustain and ringy for artificially fast. Best would be of course level without ringing.

I'm talking e.g. 50 Hz square wave. Subbass behavior is not really visible on CSDs and dynamic behavior is not visible on the FR chart.
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