tcutting;630448 Wrote: > Sine waves are used because you can make a meaningful measurement. At a > single frequency you see the amplitude and phase response at that > frequency, as well as any "added" frequency content which is due to > distortion. You can also do two-tone tests to look for intermodulation > distortion. With a broadband "real" signal, it's just too difficult to > isolate what the source of distortion is so it's not really useful. I > imagine there could be metrics for a broadband signal test to verify > the accuracy of the result, but the typical tests are more useful to > understand where the deficiencies lie.
I don't mean to say that sine wave based measurements are not useful for exactly the reasons you state. I agree with what you say 100%. But in addition to them, I'd like to see the technique in the first post become more commonplace. Terry -- TerryS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TerryS's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40835 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=87175 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
