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Originally Posted by Aivaras  I don’t remember using the word “compress”. Attack is just the initial phase of the dynamic envelope of a sound, the way the sound develops in the first, say, 1-to-50 milliseconds.
By “smearing” I didn't mean “compressing”. I simply wanted to convey the thought that the attacks of some instruments in the provided sample tracks sounded different when reproduced by different converters. Sometimes I perceived them to be sharp, concrete, very precise and focused in time, at other times somewhat blurred, washy, chorused, or simply, for the lack of a better word, “smeared”.
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1 to 50ms corresponds to frequencies from 1000 Hz to 20 Hz.
So if some converters have problems to deal with such attack times, they should have problems to deal also with these frequencies by "smearing" them.
Of course they don't, those "transients" are in fact quite slow compared to a steady state 20 kHz (let's say even a 10 kHz) frequency which will be captured quite well at 96 kHz sampling rate by any of the converters tested here as they are all up to 20 kHz bandwidth systems.
So why it should be more difficult for these converters to deal with slower slew rate than the ones they already deal with ?