Do your speakers bite??


There's a curious phrase audiophiles use for speakers with well defined leading transients, or extra string or reed sounds: bite

Sometimes this is also extra resonance from inside a string instrument.  I say it's extra because I don't hear the same in real life, but for some speakers these are marked selling points.

So, do your speakers bite?  Do you like your speakers to bite you?  What is your threshold?

erik_squires

Showing 1 response by clearthinker

I wouldn't keep a dog that has 'bite'.

There seem to be quite a few here that like an edge that exaggerates the original performance.  They want more excitement than the musicians and their instruments were able to give.  A caricature, even, of the music.  Where does it end?

Not for me.  Certainly we need a clearly defined leading edge but anything more than what we hear in the live sound is distortion and therefore undesirable.