In Reply to: RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. posted by Ugly on June 15, 2013 at 11:34:52:
Hi,
> Interesting. I'm not familiar with the software but had assumed
> it would be somehow correlated to reality.
It correlates (within the limits of the device used as A2D) quite well with reality, however you must understand how FFT works and how FFT noise floor relates to a single figure SNR.
In other words, you must understand the subject sufficiently and how to interpret the output of the test system. Please read up on "FFT process gain" to understand why an appx. -133dBFS FFT noise floor is only 16 Bit equivalent.
Thor
At 20 bits, you are on the verge of dynamic range covering fly-farts-at-20-feet to intolerable pain. Really, what more could we need?
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- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Thorsten 22:54:37 06/15/13 (9)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Ugly 13:10:19 06/16/13 (8)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Thorsten 13:32:07 06/16/13 (7)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Ugly 21:33:16 06/16/13 (6)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Thorsten 21:55:31 06/16/13 (5)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Ugly 07:13:35 06/17/13 (3)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Thorsten 09:06:53 06/17/13 (0)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Tony Lauck 08:43:40 06/17/13 (1)
- RE: TESTS: Round-up of Windows and Mac Audio Players. - Thorsten 09:16:36 06/17/13 (0)
- aha! I'm with you now. Thanks for explaining. nt - Ugly 22:07:46 06/16/13 (0)