Hi all,
I am a very scientific person and really do get the fact that DACs with similar noise measurements below 120db aught to sound the same.
But I had a thought...
The measurements on this forum seem to be very much about what is produced when an ideal signal is fed in - e.g. a 1KHz sine wave. Its good to have a reference point but what happens when you feed a real musical signal in? Do different DACs respond differently to different frequency mixes and sudden changes to the frequency content of a signal? For example, are there any tests that have a baseline piece of music that gets fed in and then the output waveform is measured and compared - If you had very similar measuring DACs from the sine wave perspective would they all end up with identical wave forms coming out when actually playing music?
Thanks for any information on this.
Conrad
I am a very scientific person and really do get the fact that DACs with similar noise measurements below 120db aught to sound the same.
But I had a thought...
The measurements on this forum seem to be very much about what is produced when an ideal signal is fed in - e.g. a 1KHz sine wave. Its good to have a reference point but what happens when you feed a real musical signal in? Do different DACs respond differently to different frequency mixes and sudden changes to the frequency content of a signal? For example, are there any tests that have a baseline piece of music that gets fed in and then the output waveform is measured and compared - If you had very similar measuring DACs from the sine wave perspective would they all end up with identical wave forms coming out when actually playing music?
Thanks for any information on this.
Conrad