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audible distortion and tube gear?

I know that I have read on this site about "tube sound" having something to do with the way tube gear handles distortion, but would tube gear make it harder to recognize distortion?

The reason I ask is because I have a test CD that has several consecutive tracks of a test tone with no distortion and then on each track distortion is increased by a certain percentage.  I am not sure I am hearing what it says I am supposed to be hearing as the distortion increases.

 

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Distortion is a personable sort of thing, likely reserved for 'umans.  One could say all music and it's varied instruments just create "liked through loved" distortions not natural in nature.  That, combined with a distort we call 'a beat' that likely began as a distort of a heartbeat.....

All audio gear has a level of 'good' distort v. 'bad' distort.

It gets discussed a lot 'round here.

It seems to get steered by taste, tolerance, and budget.

....no to mention the Final Arbiter...

SAF or SOAF.

 

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