what does "too dark" mean


when you describe a preamp as being too dark what does this refer to?
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Showing 1 response by vladimir

I would recommend J. Gordon Holt's Sounds Like audio vocabulary compendium.

Dark: "A warm, mellow, excessively rich quality in reproduced sound. The audible effect of a frequency response which is clockwise-tilted across the entire range, so that output diminishes with increasing frequency."

If you are interested in learning more, I have several links in my website's audio section:
Val e-diction