Pros and Cons of OD circuits

[Helmholtz]

FLAME ON:
For a guy who claims misunderstandings are due to being a non-native speaker, you seem to really get hung up on terminology.
Fine - you don't like my terminology. However, it is irritating when you incorrectly try to correct people. It also seems to cause you to miss the big picture in all of this.
A DCCF or diode clipper doesn't produce a truly flat top either - yet everyone understand those to be clipping circuits.
There are degrees of clipping. The world has shades of grey. Some may call it compression, or slight clipping or rounded flattening - it's all the same thing and people (except you) seem to understand it.
FLAME OFF

That's an inadequate personal attack.
I prefer to exchange technical arguments.

To me real clipping means that the transfer curve eventually gets horizontal (meaning zero incremental gain). Like it or not.
Neither the TS nor your circuit does. So no fundamental difference here.

As for the TS circuit - yes - my circuit is similar to the TS circuit and linear until the diodes kick in. I never claimed it something different.

Are you sure?

Just see here:

The two diodes and resistors are use to smooth the nonlinear portion near the zero crossing.

and here:

At that level the stage operates at near unity gain for most of the waveform, but the zero-crossings are nonlinear.

As both your circuit and the TS circuit are linear around zero crossing, no fundamental difference again.

Convince me of a qualitative - as opposed to quantitative - difference.

[uneumann]

For the sake of sanity and forum disk space - I'm bailing out of further comments on this thread.
I hope this discussion has been fruitful for many - it has for me. Thanks again for the helpful points and suggestions.