There should be a separate section for schiit in brown.
Thanks. That looks good. Question is, who will volunteer to create and maintain it.
That kind of thing can be worked in pretty easily; the labor-intensive part is collecting the data. (Thank you, @amirm !)What would really make this compelling is another chart that graphs cost (MSRP or retail) per SINAD (value). Also I think it would be worthwhile to add a "redline" below which you consider the performance below acceptable vs above the line where price and/or reaching pinnacle performance becomes the most desirable traits.
Finally, I think it might be worthwhile to add another color to the chart to show units that might be otherwise undesirable even with good/great SINAD measures. e.g. Excessively high headphone output impedance (where applicable)
Rodney
SINAD is only dominated by noise at low signal levels. At full-scale distortion should dominate so IMO SINAD is fine for the chart.
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That's quite nice. Easy to see. I especially like the color coding. Only thing is on my monitor the white numbers are a bit hard to see due to their size and color. But I can still read it.I had randomly picked the colors for testing. Here it is now with latest suggestions:
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I went through the top few units Amir has measured to check this one - it's a bit of a tossup to my eye, with stuff like the Vega, UDP205, and Qutest apparently being noise dominated to my math, whereas the SMSL D1, Benchmark DAC3, and a few others are dominated by the harmonics' contribution, so it's more of a mixed bag than I'd been eyeballing it at. I think that comparing, for example, the strangely-named DAC DAC HS with, for example, Apogee's Groove gets at what I'm griping about here, however. I'd rather be able to make apples-to-apples comparison of both distortion and noise performance rather than rolling them into a single score.
I had randomly picked the colors for testing. Here it is now with latest suggestions:
Yeh, the font was too big in this sample spreadsheet so excel on its own hid every other one. The final one won't have this issue.Half the names are missing?
Yeh, the font was too big in this sample spreadsheet so excel on its own hid every other one. The final one won't have this issue.
Sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt your feelings, man. I think we didn’t understand each other.I've read both of those rather questionable analyses. A lot of people have misinterpreted them. For better analysis, see https://www.prosoundtraining.com/2014/05/31/digital-resolution-cd-quality/, https://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/09/noise-dynamic-range.html, and https://kenrockwell.com/tech/dynamic-range.htm for far better analyses which are based on what you can actually manage to record and playback in the real work. Also see https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/philips-red-book.2138/#post-57881 for a spot-on debunk of this "120dB" nonsense. Also, https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/philips-red-book.2138/page-2#post-57905
Thinking this chart is going to tell you anything about sound quality listening to typical recorded music in anything resembling a typical playback scenario would be foolish. But, audio has always been full of people happy to get fooled. Now, if you have a dedicated listening room with 1000wpc worth of amplification, heavy treatment, and extraordinarily expensive speakers, it might be another story if you need that last nth detail on perhaps .1% of recordings.
Do you mind if I change this to: For example I need no hint to remember that dynamic range of CD is 96dB, but ...I remember that absolute human hearing range is 120dB, but I need to calculate how much zeros there should be in percentage.
https://public.tableau.com/profile/...mparisondashboardalpha/DACComparisonDashboard
Tableau version, with some filters. Note: the details aside from DAC make/model/SINAD are not complete, which will lead to odd filtering behavior if you exclude "Null" from anything.
Thanks Amir for your great service towards saving audio customers from being befooled.I had randomly picked the colors for testing. Here it is now with latest suggestions:
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My pleasure. Do you mean something like this:Thanks Amir for your great service towards saving audio customers from being befooled.
One humble suggestion that: SINAD scores may also be given at the start of bar. It will be easy to read it alongside name of the DAC, as in the mobile devices one has to zoom to read name as well as score and at a time only one end of the bar remain visible.
It is a sticky already. Just go to Home page and click on the graph.I would also like to see this SINAD Chart as sticky, so that any one could get comparison at a glance without going into review page of any DAC.