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Shipping C++ engine, reproducible CSVs and plots. These engineering gates do not establish exact hardware equivalence. See the independent reference comparison for the inherited steel minor-loop mismatch and inferred nickel models.

THD includes every integer harmonic below host Nyquist. Above8kHz at48kHz, a symmetric nonlinear model has few or no observable odd harmonics; a low in-band THD there does not mean the core is linear. The sample-rate THD plot uses a common4kHz harmonic bandwidth. Alias figures show nonharmonic residual and a separate16x numerical difference that also contains circuit integration error.

Finite measurement grid1224Every metric finitePASS
8x nonharmonic residual / drive 0.25-138.776808<= -100 dBcPASS
8x nonharmonic residual / drive 0.75-149.952628<= -100 dBcPASS
8x nonharmonic residual / drive 1-64.961912<= -60 dBcPASS
Nickel subtle 50 Hz THD at -12dBFS0.025548< 1%PASS
Nickel low-frequency saturation signature38433.53831250Hz THD > 10x 1kHz THD at drive75%PASS
Nickel full-drive core compression29.869617>10dB fundamental reduction at50HzPASS
Nickel 20kHz response rate spread0.153166<0.5dB between44.1/48/96kHzPASS
Alloy subtle 50 Hz THD at -12dBFS0.075918< 1%PASS
Alloy low-frequency saturation signature165.16794450Hz THD > 10x 1kHz THD at drive75%PASS
Alloy full-drive core compression26.187092>10dB fundamental reduction at50HzPASS
Alloy 20kHz response rate spread0.160996<0.5dB between44.1/48/96kHzPASS
Steel subtle 50 Hz THD at -12dBFS0.004527< 1%PASS
Steel low-frequency saturation signature4310.82479950Hz THD > 10x 1kHz THD at drive75%PASS
Steel full-drive core compression23.598713>10dB fundamental reduction at50HzPASS
Steel 20kHz response rate spread0.168492<0.5dB between44.1/48/96kHzPASS
Sample-rate fundamental drive0.25 / 50Hz9.2e-05<0.15dB from44.1 to768kHzPASS
Sample-rate fundamental drive0.25 / 997Hz0.001001<0.15dB from44.1 to768kHzPASS
Sample-rate fundamental drive0.75 / 50Hz7.6e-05<0.15dB from44.1 to768kHzPASS
Sample-rate fundamental drive0.75 / 997Hz0.000997<0.15dB from44.1 to768kHzPASS
Sample-rate fundamental drive1 / 50Hz1.9e-05<0.15dB from44.1 to768kHzPASS
Sample-rate fundamental drive1 / 997Hz9.9e-05<0.15dB from44.1 to768kHzPASS

Bandwidth

bandwidth

Hysteresis

hysteresis

Transfer Spectra

transfer spectra

Thd Level

thd level

Thd Frequency

thd frequency

Harmonics Frequency

harmonics frequency

Frequency Response

frequency response

Compression

compression

Intermodulation

intermodulation

Aliasing

aliasing

Sample Rates

sample rates

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