The bench / 18 measured
Every plugin runs the same offline bench: identical sample rate, block size, and test signals, recorded to the bit. The charts and stats are the bench output. Nothing is scored, ranked by taste, or weighted.
48 kHz, 512-sample blocks, processed offline, faster than realtime. Magnitude from a stepped sine; THD / THD+N from a 1 kHz level sweep (THD is the trustworthy figure, THD+N is method-floor-limited at low levels); noise floor from processed silence; latency from the impulse-response peak vs. the reported value; linearity from a single-frequency two-level null.
This lane is separate from measured results
No promoted plugins here. Anything in this lane is labeled and never affects the bench numbers or the order plugins appear in.