... I suppose What Hi-fi reviews are nothing revelant and obviously VERY biased.
About customers reviews: I guess 88db SINAD is OK for most casual listeners.
.004% THD+N (which is what this is, roughly) is probably more than okay for just about every conceivable situation. Helpful: https://kenrockwell.com/audio/why-cds-sound-great.htm.
Now, there could be other aspects of the product that just don't perform, but they unfortunately were not tested in this review (apart from the Toslink problem, which is clearly significant). An inaccurate conflation of THD+N and dynamic range was also made in this review. It is not clear at all that the product is not capable of producing the dynamic range of a CD. Based on what is presented, it is only true that it is not capable of producing the full potential dynamic range of a CD without introducing a miniscule amount of distortion at 1kHz. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. There just wasn't a lot of technical data presented here, unfortunately. My guess is that time with this product was just too short for that.
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