martijn86
Active Member
As a slight introduction: I'm a new member. I've been following along every review since the Google Pixel adapters which, looking back, was a only on a ti-ny SINAD list! Thanks @amir for all your hard work. Before ASR, I had little to no proper foundation on what DAC to buy other then pricing and manufacturer measurements. And congrats on the APx555!
To business! Your famous SINAD table uses colour coding and that's important to offer some clarity in the data. However, I feel that the current colour brackets lack relevance. They can tell you if a product is in the top 25% of products previously tested, but what meaning is there in that? I would like to suggest 10dB brackets, just like now, but with a little more relevance.
Hopefully this will make it easier for less tech-savvy users to make sense of the chart and apply meaning to the rather abstract SINAD value.
To business! Your famous SINAD table uses colour coding and that's important to offer some clarity in the data. However, I feel that the current colour brackets lack relevance. They can tell you if a product is in the top 25% of products previously tested, but what meaning is there in that? I would like to suggest 10dB brackets, just like now, but with a little more relevance.
- █ >116dB Superior. Performance exceeds human hearing threshold.
- █ 115dB-106dB Excellent. Performance is capable of higher resolution output.
- █ 105dB-96dB Proper. Performance fully covers 16-bit (CD) resolution.
- █ 95dB-86dB Mediocre. Performance does not meet 16-bit (CD) resolution.
- █ <85dB Low. Avoid if you take any interest in audio performance.