Greg_G wrote:I say Germaniums tend to sound sound harsher.. even at the same clipping threshold.
What we see on a scope and what our ears perceive are 2 different things.
That's true, the Oscilloscope has a bandwidth that's quite a few orders of magnitude wider than the human ear, my Scope can go from DC to 20Mhz, a young healthy ear can go from 20hz to 20kHz, as we age we lose the high-end response of our ears naturally due to aging, or excessive loud noise exposure, what we see on a Scope screen is really a graph of Voltage versus Time, to see the individual harmonics, we need a Spectrum Analyser, wish I had one....

It's interesting how our ears are able to hear the harmonics of a signal as a perceived Timbral-Colour....

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