Feanor
Member
The thing to understand about ASR's SINAD is that it is essentially just THD + noise. It share the same problem that single-number THD did in the '70s and '80s. Amir touts SINAD as valid because "other measurements tend to correlated" with it.The 70’s distortion wars and Stereo Review’s Julian “I never met a component I didn’t like” Hirsch have been replaced by something much worse: the ASR Amir ‘SINAD’ 1 kHz test that appears to me to be negatively correlated to listening pleasure.
Well not really, IMHO. Personally I pay a lot of attention to the harmonic distortion spectra. What "musical"? Look for high(ish) 2nd order distortion. What crisp and transparent? Look for very low distortion, especially very low higher order distortion.