High End jargon; your take

"Tight" as in "the bass became more tight."

This is determined by system Q - an overdamped, critically damped or underdamped system.

Q of less than 0.5 is tight. (impression is less bass until you turn it up and then it seems like someone is firing a machine gun in the room - think New Order Blue Monday)

Q of .7 is balanced ( a good compromise but still not much bass especially at low levels)

Q of more than 1.1 is muddy and will resonate "warmly" with plenty of bass ( guess what they use in most designs....)

Low Q means low efficiency and high cost.

High Q means high efficiency and low cost (typically a small lightweight woofer with small voice coil in a ported design)

Hi-Fi = High Fidelity which means you are faithful to your wife and buy only small tall narrow speakers that are unobtrusive. Opposite of Hi-Fi is Ja-Bla = Jack-Black where you suffer male menopause and buy a Harley Davidson and get massive speakers in an effort to have a system that sounds as loud as ACDC.

Well I always knew that audiophiles were analytical but this thread seems to have taken a nasty turn.

I third Rodman's comments - spot on - exactly right - that is just how it all sounds! Well said! Although a high Q system (underdamped) can sound pleasant (with plenty of bass for a small WAF friendly design) it will not convey the lower octaves clearly so that you can feel the "texture" of bass sounds. There is actually a stunning amount of information in the bass - every individual track should actually sound dramatically different in the bass just as every midrange and treble usually does.

Now we are getting somwhere!

...somewhere between Grace Jones and Alison Moyet possibly?