There is nothing wrong with SINAD chasing

[Tell]

There's no race. I bought a DAC with a 120 dB SINAD and I'm not chasing anything else. I'm not replacing it with a DAC with 121/122/123 dB SINAD. But I did replace my old DAC with 107 dB SINAD. Simply because, when paired with a high-quality amplifier, the DAC's noise increases by another 20 dB and is audible with good speakers in a quiet room. And many have written about this noise. Having a buffer to avoid worrying about it after spending $200 on it can hardly be called a race. The fact that many adherents of objective audio parameters communicate on this forum doesn't mean we're chasing something crazy and changing equipment every month.

You had an audible different though, so my comment wasn't aimed to you. And you're not chasing SINAD for SINADs sake, but for lower noise floor, and from what I understand you're happy with what you got now and probably won't upgrade as soon as you find something even (objectively) better.
Though in your case SINAD won't necessarily help you seeing it's based of a combination of noise and distortion, so a 107dB one can have lower noise floor than a 120dB one if that 107dB is limited by distortion and not noise.

 

[Mike123]

That's why we often read some people who write that they never heard any problems the last 20 years, and they are right

Many people listen to music through their mobile phone speakers without any problems. The range of equipment requirements is extremely wide. On the other hand, there are those who tweak their audio systems to perfection. They have both the desire and the means. I'm happy with both options, and I wouldn't argue with either of them about how dare you do anything differently than I do.

 

[Sokel]

Many people listen to music through their mobile phone speakers without any problems. The range of equipment requirements is extremely wide. On the other hand, there are those who tweak their audio systems to perfection. They have both the desire and the means. I'm happy with both options, and I wouldn't argue with either of them about how dare you do anything differently than I do.

I obviously don't mean those people.
I'm talking about seasoned members, here

 

[Holmz]

You had an audible different though, so my comment wasn't aimed to you. And you're not chasing SINAD for SINADs sake, but for lower noise floor, and from what I understand you're happy with what you got now and probably won't upgrade as soon as you find something even (objectively) better.
Though in your case SINAD won't necessarily help you seeing it's based of a combination of noise and distortion, so a 107dB one can have lower noise floor than a 120dB one if that 107dB is limited by distortion and not noise.

Ok - you found one reason why SINAD is stupid… just like a few pages back nearer the start of the thread.
The only way to insure low noise to go with super low SINAD.

If it was a measurement of Noise and THD then it would be a lot easier than just rolling up as SINAD.
Many really do not care a whole lot about THD, compared to Noise.