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Top two most important sound qualities

In case you didn't know, it's 2023 and this website still hasn't implemented a polling feature, so I can't define a selection of sound qualities to choose from and see results in a grouped, organized fashion. Boo hoo!

 

If you had to pick two of the typically referenced sound qualities that are most important to you to optimizing the enjoyment of your system, what are they? You know what I mean, right? Could be a certain frequency range and some particular quality that you for in it, or any quality that applies across all frequencies, etc.

(Note: "Sound qualities" mentioned here do not include anything that refers to physical attributes of your system or listening room, such as acoustical treatments, types of components, types of source material, physical tweaks, etc. It's only a reference to subjectively appreciated qualities.)

128x128gladmo
therandyman
33 posts
 

Soundstage and Imaging.

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audioman58
3,885 posts
 

Easy since 75% of the music is the midrange ,the-other Bass.

curtdr
348 posts
 

for speakers: linearity and dispersion

or:  linearity and dynamism

usually, though not always, linearity also means clarity.

and, admittedly, not all great speakers are perfectly linear AND it is also in the ears of the beholder, always

noodlyarm
91 posts
 

Clarity and presence.   I want my system to sound as close to “live” as possible.

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bdp24
9,487 posts
 

Amen @noodlyarm. J. Gordon Holt used a term I like a lot, one I think you are getting at: "immediacy". I hear it in the sound of direct-to-disk LP’s, Decca/London pickups, and electrostatic loudspeakers. Horns as well, but they are too colored for my delicate sensibilities ;-) .

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