Phil Leigh;349652 Wrote: 
> 
> Anyway, you can see that the sinewaves via the TACT is pretty perfect
> but the squarewaves have that added distortion.

You really can't conclude anything from that sinewave.  My hypothesis
was that the TACT is adding harmonic distortion, but that would be very
hard to see on a pure tone in the time domain.  If it's there it should
make the wave ever so slightly asymmetric. 

The top trace below is a pure sin, the middle one is that same sin
distorted with the function that reproduced something like your square
wave, and the bottom has about 5X more distortion (in amplitude) so you
can see what it's doing.  You'd have to be able to distinguish between
the middle and top traces to see this in your pure tone.

I wonder whether this is best characterized as harmonic distortion,
though - can a digital resampling bug introduce that?

As for the noise, I agree with Sean - in most systems is negligible. 
Mine happens to be particularly sensitive (and I'm to some degree an
obsessive audiophile) so I noticed it.


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