look at pp. 32 and forward in here: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-High-End-Audio/dp/0978649362
Need definitions of: Dark; Warm; and Bright
Throughout thousands of postings, the descriptive adjectives of dark, warm, and bright are employed. What does each of them actually mean? Are these meanings solely subjective, or can they be seen in displays of frequency responses and distortion across an audio spectrum?
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These terms mean nothing.This sentence is literally talking about itself and its author. Nothing but poetic license!This one too. Why must ignorance declare itself so boldly? Hmmm. It’s seemed to obvious to mention before, but clearly it’s not: experience require *words* to be communicated. Experience of music can change when we compare with others and use new words. Happens with smell, too. The point, Roxy, is that you don't always "know them when you hear them." You often need words to know them. This is why parents teach children the words for things and qualities in their experience. So they can know them, designate them in the future, compare them, etc. Without words, we're dumb brutes. |
@mijostyn A lot of none answers. None [sic] answers? Well, I gave a reference to Robert Harley’s book, with specific reference to a chapter meticulously dedicated to a variety of terms for different aspects of the qualities found in the experience of sound. Harley is an engineer, a reviewer, and an expert at listening and explaining. You have offered your own home-made terms for what these terms mean, and that is helpful, but really -- it’s not remotely in the same league as Harley. It's closer to a non-answer. |
@mammothguy54 Thanks for the nice words! As for "chocolate mid-range" and "butterscotch highs" -- I have no problem with that. There are words my family and I make up to describe various experiences -- and they are very, very precise because we make them up in circumstances we all experience and we use the terms to function in certain ways. The only problem with these sorts of made up words and phrases is that they don't have much currency outside our little tribe. Very accurate and useful within one group but not transferable. The fundamental issue in this conversation seems to be "which words can be used to describe audio experiences accurately that other people can also learn?" |