I don't want to beat a dead horse but I'm bugged.

In this case low frequency spuriae due to class D design.

 

Can you explain what class D has to do with low frequency spurs?

I don't think anything can make it worse than -66.1db. That seems pretty bad. I did a search on Sphinx. Several users noting noise issues. I did not find anything on the V3.

Always let your ears guide you!

JD

I don't think anything can make it worse than -66.1db.

Not sure you are interested but the spuriae (peaks at certain frequencies) make the average number look worse than it is. You are just looking at the raw number and that isn't telling the whole story.

Several users noting noise issues

Links please.

You are buying audio to listen to it, not to put a meter on it and measure it. Obviously how it sounds is the most important thing.  In my own case I recently bought a Lindeman Limetree Bridge, even after it was lambasted by ASR, why, it sounded wonderful, it still sounds wonderful.  It was lambasted for high distortion, well I doubt anybody could hear 10x the distortion or even a 100x the distortion it was criticised for. We are in the zone of analysis paralysis. ASR criticised the Bluesound Node similarly, there of hundreds of thousands sold and 99% of people are probably completely satisfied. There is a great story about washing machines (sort of) a well known speaker on product quality in the 1980's showed a slide to the audience with data from experts on washing machines. They concluded which was the best washing machine. He then asked the audience who owned a washing machine, he then asked them what they thought the best brand was, the outstanding vote was Maytag.  Maytag was not the best according to the experts. At the end of the presentation he asked people who didn't have a current machine or were unhappy with their present machine what brand they would buy? Overwhelmingly they said Maytag. Because they trust the people that have got them, more than the people who measure them. Trust yourself and how it sounds to you, there is no one else who can predict that, no matter how many reviews or how many measurements.

The ASR site is useless for anyone who enjoys music. The little minions and the minion leader only worship charts. The minion leader knows very little when it comes to listenin. He was a but a project manager.