[TenTec] Orion Speech Compressors

[Ken Brown]

Depends how you define distortion. A typical way to define distortion is 
"output that differs in any way other than a fixed gain or loss compared 
to the input." If a speech processor had no distortion by this 
definition, it would serve no purpose at all. In order for a speech 
processor to be useful, it has to do something to the speech waveform, 
and that something that it does IS distortion by some definitions of 
distortion.
> There is NO distortion even at higher levels of compression. That is because
> the algorithm used in the DSP does the compression correctly. Same in my
> hearing aids. The compression does not add ANY distortion. 
DE N6KB