Is your system black and white or colorized?

[ohbythebay]

Accurate? What's that? Accurate, dry, warm, clinical, dark, sweet.? Honestly these words are nothing more than how we as individuals describe sound with our own two ears. There is not a right or wrong and it's not a debate. It's simply a means of describing what we hear.

Very true...some descriptions are more common than others. Warm, forward, wide, accurate, pleasing, silky, refined.

I rarely hear - Milky, squawky, sweet, sour, explosive...LOL ..but its early yet !

 

[NorthStar]

I like my sound multi chocolat mousse.

 

[MDP]

:roflmao:

I can whip out my pocket audio glossary on you guy's. Specifically for East Texas folk. Courtesy of Tara Labs. I wonder if they were trying to tell me something?

 

[socfan12]

I want a transparent system that leans toward the colorizations that I prefer. And I think I have it now (but then I also think I'm still 25 years old, have a sculpted body, and have more hair than I do).

I'm definitely in this camp (the sculpted body, full set of hair I mean!:snicker.

But seriously, I like hearing the detail (if it was recorded, it was meant to be heard, live or reproduced, no?), but slightly colored or interpreted with a warm, sexy accent!

Give me color or give me AM Radio.

I listen for enjoyment and relaxation. If coloration increases my enjoyment and relaxation, bring it on.
I could care less about some unobtainable thing called "accuracy" I wouldn't know accuracy if it hit me in the face, I have never had a clue what the original artists and or producers of a recording "intended" it to sound like anyway.

This post is so full of win!:scholar::heart:

 

[dlb2]

But seriously, I like hearing the detail (if it was recorded, it was meant to be heard, live or reproduced, no?), but slightly colored or interpreted with a warm, sexy accent!

:woot:


I would say that my system is very colored and that's the way I like it. Drop me in front of my speakers, put on some syrupy sweet music and let me melt into the chair. It's like a a beautiful shade of green with some notes of dark chocolate wrapped in a nice down comforter with a puppy on top!

 

[Dpod4]

GRAY . . . .

I need it to grab me and show it's emotion first. It needs to make you tap your toe. Once it has that, I want to get as close to black or white as I can with out losing the emotion and toe tapping.

Great answer!!!

 

[sharkmouth]

Give me color or give me AM Radio.

I listen for enjoyment and relaxation. If coloration increases my enjoyment and relaxation, bring it on.
I could care less about some unobtainable thing called "accuracy" I wouldn't know accuracy if it hit me in the face, I have never had a clue what the original artists and or producers of a recording "intended" it to sound like anyway.

Why Ray, of coarse you know what accuracy is!!! You own 20.7's man!!!! :victory:

 

[BobM]

The majority of us on this thread choose some form of coloration over accuracy. I tend to believe that this is what most audiophiles desire in their systems.

So, is it only the reviewers who want total accuracy, so they can then have a benchmark with which to judge equipment? When will the magazines address this issue in an article (accuracy vs. pleasurable colorations and the reviewers dilemma)?

 

[ohbythebay]

The majority of us on this thread choose some form of coloration over accuracy. I tend to believe that this is what most audiophiles desire in their systems.

So, is it only the reviewers who want total accuracy, so they can then have a benchmark with which to judge equipment? When will the magazines address this issue in an article (accuracy vs. pleasurable colorations and the reviewers dilemma)?

Very true !!! But it would be nice for them to throw in some adjectives regarding the coloration aspect ..sometimes they go on a limb and talk about how it made them want to listen to more..

BTW...I LOVE your tag line

Vine, Vide, Velcro - I came, I saw, I stuck around

 

[NorthStar]

The majority of us on this thread choose some form of coloration over accuracy. I tend to believe that this is what most audiophiles desire in their systems.

So, is it only the reviewers who want total accuracy, so they can then have a benchmark with which to judge equipment? When will the magazines address this issue in an article (accuracy vs. pleasurable colorations and the reviewers dilemma)?

Thing is this Bob: When you make a living writing about hi-end audio there are certain rules to follow.
If you don't there wouldn't be anything to write about. I think.

But here we are free, it's not our job (paycheck) to write and talk about audio; so we say things the way we truly prefer them. ...I truly believe it is that simple. I trust more myself first, then you guys soon after, and pro reviewers last.
And for people who like to have fun (all of us) we simply read them reviews; for sake of curiosity, and anything else that we can find useful.

Something like that anyway.

* Is High End Audio Dying?

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How many pro reviewers put the accent where it counts the most; in the quality of the music recordings?
Very few, but they're there, I know some. And the music we prefer is personal, same as the sound coming from the speakers and amplified by this or that amp.
How many two same people prefer the same thing?

 

[sharkmouth]

Thing is this Bob: When you make a living writing about hi-end audio there are certain rules to follow.
If you don't there wouldn't be anything to write about. I think.

But here we are free, it's not our job (paycheck) to write and talk about audio; so we say things the way we truly prefer them. ...I truly believe it is that simple. I trust more myself first, then you guys soon after, and pro reviewers last.
And for people who like to have fun (all of us) we simply read them reviews; for sake of curiosity, and anything else that we can find useful.

Something like that anyway.

* Is High End Audio Dying?

______________

How many pro reviewers put the accent where it counts the most; in the quality of the music recordings?
Very few, but they're there, I know some. And the music we prefer is personal, same as the sound coming from the speakers and amplified by this or that amp.
How many two same people prefer the same thing?

Are hippies/alternatives silly?