Yes they pay me a million dollars a year. You've sussed me.
I have never said there is no problem ,or that it doesn't need sorting out, however the
SCALE of some of the language on here is out of proportion IMO.
Sure, people are pissed off that SMSL seems to be ignoring the problem, but there's only so much outrage one can have over a $400 DAC. I could be wrong, but I don't think anyone in this thread has suggested doing anything more radical than trying to get a refund from their retailer. Heck, if SMSL is simply going to ignore the issue, that's the only choice one has if they don't want to live with it. Given that, the scale of the outrage seems appropriate to me.
@MusicNBeer makes the point
precisely. If Amir had turned up a SINAD of 70dB during his testing, the M500 would've ended up as one of the lowest rated DACs reviewed to date, and it wouldn't have been a blip on anyone's radar.
Put another way, if we accept the conventional wisdom on this forum that the only thing that distinguishes the performance of one DAC from the next are its specs and measurements, then by that definition, the M500 sucks.