Please help define these audiophile words

JackD201 said:
I think all experiences are both personal and unique in some way. That's always been the challenge of communicating them regardless the subject matter. We always need to express these in ways the receiving parties will hopefully understand. The guessing game begins even before a word has been uttered or typed. In a pinch we just get it out there and hope something sticks! :D
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..Jack you must have slept thru Audio Journalism 101 :-)
 
bzr said:
Personally I think of most of it as people with a resemblance of intelligence with too much to say that use superfluous expressions & then try to put their own spin on it because their experience is unique like no other before. .....
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wisnon said:
What he said!
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Do some people, really not understand the idea of hobby? It's why it's your thing; because it's more important to you, than most.

Tell me we'd be better off; no, scratch that! Tell me we'd have more fun; simply stating...this is good, that is bad. :rolleyes: :notreally:
 
Chris, personally, it's about the sound for me & all the pretty words don't mean jack when I read a review. When I do read a review or give credit to someone else's opinion on a component or sound, it's usually a sentence sometimes 2 is what the relevance is for me. By the way, the above comment was tongue in cheek, so no doubt had a slight wooly & subdued sound to it, the highs were there but the lows a tad obscured.........................
 
bzr said:
Chris, personally, it's about the sound for me & all the pretty words don't mean jack when I read a review. When I do read a review or give credit to someone else's opinion on a component or sound, it's usually a sentence sometimes 2 is what the relevance is for me. By the way, the above comment was tongue in cheek, so no doubt had a slight wooly & subdued sound to it, the highs were there but the lows a tad obscured.........................
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Well, I'm down with that; and as I said in my 1st post...just because I defined them, doesn't mean I endorse or use them.

But it has become the language of our hobby. In fact, one of the reasons I took...what I thought might be flame-bait; was because there is a "plain" way, to describe the different things we hear and experience...at this level of audio.
 
There's this friend of mine I'd known since elementary school who's a member in the same Golf club. One day we had the equivalent of a pick up game after hanging out at the range. It was my first time to play a round with him. I noticed that before he'd put his caddy would say a number. Quatro, he'd pick his line....dink....and the ball would roll close to the cup. Next hole. Siyete...dink...close to the hole. Third hole. Tres.....dink....close again. Cinco....dink....in the hole. That's cool I thought. They worked out a system for the speed of his putter head through his putting stroke. I asked how long it took them to work that out. They said it took about six months playing twice or thrice a week. It not being a betting round I kidded with my caddy and said, ok we have a left to right downhill curler give me a number. Dos....tap.....I was five feet short. :D

I guess what I'm saying is that even this simplest way of describing gradations of variance, a simple scale of 1 to 10, needs to be synced up with both parties. Standardized to some extent if you will. What it is, is concise from the get go. The effectivity came later. Eventually as my friend's game progressed he no longer needed a caddy to give him the speed. Good thing too since the caddy eventually retired.
 
Gentlemen,

Thank you kindly. This makes a world of difference in understanding what the heck people are talking about.

Just one more, please: what does "open sound" mean? Does it pertain to treble, or something else?
 
As I've gathered from it's usual usage, "Open" is often used as the opposite to congested so it describes a lot of things at once making its description vexing. It's a one word-er that attempts to depict separation, clarity, expansiveness and linearity particularly in the highs and the lack of nasties like compression artifacts from things like heat and other sources of grain or grunge. So I guess an open sounding system is one that allows the listener to effortlessly pick an instrument or vocal and focus on it while the instruments and vocalists sound natural. In effect getting something akin to an exploded view on things without things sounding technical or artificial.
 
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