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Michael Davis, I work here
Soundstaging is how the 'images' of the musicians and instruments are spread between the two stereo speakers. The soundstage, then, is the virtual stage the ...
from the Nomenclature files. 1 answer
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Michael Davis, I work here
Imaging refers to the ability for people to listen to music on a good stereo system and, using the ears to triangulate where a sound is coming from, 'see' in...
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Michael Davis, I work here
Unfortunately people label several rather different amplifier-speaker combinations as under-powered and speakers as under-driven. In the most innocuous c...
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Michael Davis, I work here
For most people a bright sound is something that is unpleasant to listen to. It is also sometimes called a 'sharp' or 'edgy' or 'aggressive' sound. A bri...
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Michael Davis, I work here
Saying that something is cold sounding is almost always a pejorative. A cold sound is the opposite of a warm sound. It is usually a sound with too few ha...
from the Nomenclature files. 1 answer
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Michael Davis, I work here
When someone says something is warm sounding, it can be descriptive or it can be meant as derogatory. As a description it means that the sound has a lot o...
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Michael Davis, I work here
I think a small, intimate sound refers to a soundstage, and images on that soundstage, that are smaller than life. Along with this one usually expects that t...
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Michael Davis, I work here
I do not see this term used very often. I have seen it used as both a minor pejorative and as a synonym for 'ease' The first type of relaxed sounds usuall...
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Michael Davis, I work here
What most people mean, I think when they talk about an 'open' sound, or a big, open sound, is that there is both an ease to the sound (the amplifiers do not...
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Michael Davis, I work here
A big sound is pretty much what one would expect. A big soundstage primarily. An images that are at least close to life-size, if not larger than life. Often ...
from the Nomenclature files. 1 answer
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Michael Davis, I work here
In its most innocuous sense, detail means the same thing as high resolution. In it sometimes (often?) pejorative sense, it means exaggerated leading edge...
from the Nomenclature files. 1 answer
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Michael Davis, I work here
There may be some disagreement about what this means, but I will describe what I think it means and why I think it makes the most sense. I think high reso...
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Michael Davis, I work here
When a sound is more dynamic the notes of the music are more explosive, they are punchier. When the bass, the low frequencies, is more dynamic, you can feel ...
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Gregory O'Brien, Designchallengeder
The Port is a source of energy and has an effect on room acoustics. Generally a front ported Loudspeaker can be placed closer to a Rear Wall for Placement.
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Gregory O'Brien, Designchallengeder
Why ports? In a word Tuning. Tuning is how a Bass-Reflex system drivers are controlled in a loudspeaker cabinet.
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take care of large leather-backed sofas (esp. if they're not placed far from rear walls). they tend to be rather reflective and can interact with room's acou...