Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Fwd: [Jamin] Re: soft clip: Achieving Gain, inconsequential overloads

"CMIIW" --- OK: While it is well-known that distortion creates more frequency components, in a classic experiment done in 1924 by Wegel and Lane [1], it was shown that  due to the nonlinear processing done by the inner ear, additional tones could be heard provided that the intensity was loud enough. That there are psychophysical effects which result in "louder produces more harmonics" has long been established.  If there are also other nonlinear effects beyond this (nonlinear processing by the brain), then there may also be psychoacoustic effects that result in "louder produces more harmonics."  This is very likely, not nonexistent.