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 ...

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...

Unfortunately people label several rather different amplifier-speaker combinations as under-powered and speakers as under-driven. In the most innocuous c...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

In its most innocuous sense, detail means the same thing as high resolution. In it sometimes (often?) pejorative sense, it means exaggerated leading edge...

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...

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 ...