watchnerd
Grand Contributor
The exercise I doing in examining the real outputs of various pro gear in simple DA/AD paths demonstrates misbehaviour at only about 20dB down in the poorer cases - there is a large divergence of competence, in the real world, and looking at what the waveform does in the "tricky areas" shows up the winners, and losers.
I want to make sure I understand what you're saying.
Are you saying you have equipment that has noise and distortion artificats at -20 dB? If that's the case, it's broken or just garbage.
Or are you saying you have equipment that "misbehaves" at -20 DBFS?