ARTA To Test DAC Performance

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I have. Use the spectrum FFT section. You can look at all sorts of things, single tones, high-mid-low, multi-tones, etc.
Of course you'll need a soundcard with an input to do the measuring. It becomes a little difficult to tell what is the DAC and what is the ADC. The compare overlay function can help there.

I'm sure some other folks will chime in.
 
I posted some DAC measurements taken with ARTA a few years ago, including impulse response, tone bursts, and IMD. DACs were running at 44.1khz rate, and data was captured at 192kHz Juli@ sound card to try and minimize tainting the DAC behavior with the ADC response. For the DACs in CD players, I used ARTA to export *.wav file that was written to CD and then used ARTA's trigger/capture capability when playing it back. For the stand-alone DACs, you can just feed the signal directly from computer to DAC.

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Interestingly, the largest sampling rate has the largest harmonic distortion. Who would have thought that.
 

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