antcollinet
Master Contributor
You got it wrong.Is it a ridiculous strawman? Because I believe you had been trying to argue that you can determine audibility/transparency solely with measurements (and without any need for anything subjective, like listening tests). Please correct me if I got that wrong.
I offered an example earlier, the Benchmark DAC 1, which did not have a dynamic range measurement that could satisfy even the "lenient" threshold in the reference you provided. So, based solely on measurements, would you then conclude that the Benchmark DAC 1 is NOT transparent? (Because, as you argue, we don't need those subjective listening tests, right?)
The statement made is we can determine transparency/INaudibility. When measurements are above the limits (normally much above the limits as in some of the boutique distortion generators), the statement is that it may be audible, and can explain differences people state they can hear. Not that it is necessarily audible.
For example I've often stated that my learning regarding audibility here saved me from buying a new dac to replace my "poor" 85dB sinad external sound card. Even though it measured above the audibility limits I was pretty confident I'd not hear any issues.
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