@nonoise
Tone: Frequency response.
Timbre: Distortion.
Soundstage: Channel matching and channel separation.
Fullness: Frequency response.
Realism: Nonsense description.
The DACs I mentioned all do those well, behind human audibility.
MQA you can see, using terms like sterile or lifesless causes confusion, it’s best to actually talk about what the product is doing good or doing bad, rather than make up description words that actually don’t directly describe, like calling a Samsung TV’s picture as feminine and a Sony TV as masculine.
Tone: Frequency response.
Timbre: Distortion.
Soundstage: Channel matching and channel separation.
Fullness: Frequency response.
Realism: Nonsense description.
The DACs I mentioned all do those well, behind human audibility.
MQA you can see, using terms like sterile or lifesless causes confusion, it’s best to actually talk about what the product is doing good or doing bad, rather than make up description words that actually don’t directly describe, like calling a Samsung TV’s picture as feminine and a Sony TV as masculine.