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what is the meaning of this???

ok. Maybe I'm just dense. Maybe it's just another piece of ambiguous audiphile jargon. Perhaps it's a new term that Audiophile Newbies are using...I just don't know anymore.

What is meant by the term 'fleshed-out'. As in, the sound was very fleshed-out. The speakers/ amp/ DAC or whatever seemed to make the sound more 'fleshed out'.

I have read this several times on Audiogon, but I still, to date, don't have a definite idea of what this means. (I do have an idea of what it means, but I'd like to get some others' definitions first).

thanks,

Steve
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stehno
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Funny, I've always understood it to mean 'retrieving the last bit of detail'. Of course, one always needs to look at the statement in it's entire context. Some knowledge of the author would certainly help also.

-IMO
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philjolet
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I think I have used that recently and I meant that the sound was lacking body - on a frequency response graph there would be a dip in frequency response in the approximate area of 150 - 300 hz which results in a 'lean' sound, so something like a saxaphone sounds more like a tenor saxaphone instead of having weight and tone in the lower frequencies.
octopus
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I usually associate the term with the fatigue associated with surfing porn sites for five or six hours.
thedautch
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Very good, Octopus. Excellent, in fact!
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jwrobinson
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These terms can mean anything you want them to mean or they can mean nothing. Fleshed-out is just some ridiculous term some reviewer thought up to confuse when trying to describe what a piece of audio gear sounds like. I personally like the term 'slow woofer' or 'slow subwoofer'. Woofers by nature and design ARE slow. If they were fast they would be tweeters.

Jim
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