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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2013, 05:23:59 AM »
What's a non colored headphone?  A headphone that masks all recordings equally?  There is certainly an aspect to detail retrieval related to driver capability independent of FR bias.  If someone can't tell 128kb from 320kb (assuming a properly dynamic track) that phone/rig is masking and simply not accurate.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2013, 06:30:43 AM »
I know it means something, but not to me: transients.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2013, 06:54:30 AM »
Quote from: jerg on January 17, 2013, 06:30:43 AM
I know it means something, but not to me: transients.

What are you, a Republican?   :)) ;)


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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2013, 07:00:19 AM »
I like the term musical. When i say musical for instance, I just mean that it makes me enjoy the music more than thinking of the details in describing everything analytically.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #14 on: January 17, 2013, 07:01:22 AM »
Quote from: Analixus on January 17, 2013, 06:54:30 AM
Quote from: jerg on January 17, 2013, 06:30:43 AM
I know it means something, but not to me: transients.

What are you, a Republican?   :)) ;)



Conservative, but close enough  :D

No but seriously though, I still haven't read one definition of 'transients' that made me understand it fully.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #15 on: January 17, 2013, 07:03:57 AM »
I've never cared for the term PRaT.  I have no reason why, it just irks me to no end.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #16 on: January 17, 2013, 07:21:26 AM »
Added.

Prat was a term invented by stereo sales people to make us NOT focus on technicalities such as tonal balance, resolution, distortion, timbral realism, etc., but rather concentrate on the rhythm or beat in order to sell us overpriced stuff that sounded like shit.

I'm serious. As a former graduate of the Don Cheadle  Boogie Nights school of Stereo Salesmen, I shit you not. Some Jedi mind trickery is involved of course.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #17 on: January 17, 2013, 07:26:02 AM »
Quote from: jerg on January 17, 2013, 06:30:43 AM
I know it means something, but not to me: transients.

It's just the same as "attack" - actually a shorthand for "transient sound". Think sharp percussion. Different from "impact", because that apparently applies to bass only.

"PRaT", "Tube sound", "Wire-with-gain" etc. is worthless junk.

However, I'd like to egg Purrin some more with that "nothing", hahaha.
A: It sounds like gain.
(That actually means it doesn't sound like: distortion, coloration, ringing... So, perceptually accurate? No tonality change?)
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2013, 07:30:27 AM »
Quote from: AstralStorm on January 17, 2013, 07:26:02 AM
Quote from: jerg on January 17, 2013, 06:30:43 AM
I know it means something, but not to me: transients.

It's just the same as "attack" - actually a shorthand for "transient sound". Think sharp percussion. Different from "impact", because that apparently applies to bass only.

"PRaT", "Tube sound", "Wire-with-gain" etc. is worthless junk.

However, I'd like to egg Purrin some more with that "nothing", hahaha.
A: It sounds like gain.
(That actually means it doesn't sound like: distortion, coloration, ringing... So, perceptually accurate? No tonality change?)

So basically how responsive or quick the diaphragm is (decay / impulse response)?
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2013, 07:34:38 AM »
Yes. And how clean - without blurring of those transients.

Most transients are pretty dirty tho. They smell bad too.
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