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Have You Seen - 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound

I ran across this article: 10 Characteristics of Great Audiophile Sound and wanted to share on Audiogon (as I think it makes some great points) and secondly to ask this community if there are any other characteristics you would add as further discussion points?

For my own amusement I’ve scored my subjective level of achievement against the 10 characteristics and that was an interesting exercise too that you might like to use to rate your audiophile sound?

sparksgja
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toddalin
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Slam is not typically something you would experience at a rock concert.

This tune is good for demonstrating slam if your system can do it:

https://youtu.be/aLEhh_XpJ-0

ghdprentice
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@toddalin 

+1 exactly. In any venue I have ever been the bass arrival times are differentially delayed causing a wave of bass to wash over you, it is nuanced with different frequencies blended together. Never slam as is often desired and delivered by some high end system.  This is one of the very convincing aspects of my tube amp the bass is highly nuanced and is like a giant wave hitting you when a classical or rock crescendo occurs. 

quincy
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Great post!  Thanks for sharing the link to the article.  I concur with the article! 

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