Devialet Expert isn't good in showing secondary harmonics?

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I quite liked Damon's tubey bloom theory, in that maybe the Devialet is very accurately not doing something.  Something that some amplifiers might do that 'colours' the sound fractionally, but subjectively sounds pleasing.

Exactly.  Aren't valve amps supposed to sound good partly because they tend to have a lot of even-order harmonic distortion?  So if  one gets used to that sound I can imagine that the Devialet would sound a bit "clinical" by comparison.  It's the old dilemma about whether you'd rather have something that sounds "accurate" or "nice", I think.