Wayne Parham Messages: 18783 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
Some harmonics are more discordant than others. Odd harmonics sound worse than even harmonics do, and higher harmonics sound more edgy than lower ones. So if you have 5% second harmonic in one environment and 3% fifth harmonic in another, the latter will sound worse even though the percentage of distortion in the first case is higher.