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Re: The "secret" of the vintage sound?
      16/06/11 05:16 PM
DC offset will tend to introduce even harmonic distortion, if it is enough to drive any stage of the signal chain into non-linearity. Even because it is asymmetric - symmetric distortion gives you odd harmonics.

Even harmonic distortion is considered in some circles to "sound good". I have met one person who liked lots of it - he had cobbled together a "wonderfully hifi stereo" that was full of it.

It does not get past the first series capacitor or transformer though, although in the case of a transformer, that counts as a "stage" for the purposes of introducing distortion.

Not sure what the residual effects on an audio transformer are. It is not something I would want to do without being sure it was not going to permanently magnetise the core.

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