To answer the thread title:
- Clock Rate, as in how many cycles the DAC setup/chip does in one second
- Clock Jitter, clock timing variation
- Sample Rate, Sampels taken per second/time division
- Over Sampling Rate (can be 0), comparisons taken between output and input signal
- VRMS, how “hot” the output signal is
- S/N R, Signal to Noise Ratio
- S/N-D R, Signal to Noise and Distortion Ratio
- Monotonicity, The “directness” of the analog signal reaching the desired level
- THD, Total Harmonic Distortion
- Dynamic Range, Total Voltage swing of the output
My 2 Cent on the above “things you can measure”:
Do you know what half of them are?
I don’t mean have you heared of the acronym. I mean do you know why that number being what it is is important?
Else you might aswell measure how much water the device displaces, weigh it and rate DACs by density.
“High numbers” only work when you know what that number means.