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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #30 on: January 17, 2013, 03:38:39 PM »
Quote from: DaveBSC on January 17, 2013, 08:26:15 AM
PRaT is incredibly obnoxious, and often used by terrible audio reviewers. The only thing worse, this: "I thought the Swiss ’table and arm set new standards of transparency and low-level resolution in vinyl playback, extending dynamic range on the p-to-pppp side in the same way that the great Walker Black Diamond record player extended dynamic range on the f-to-ffff side of the dynamic spectrum."

FUCK YOU TAS.


ROFL. Was that really from TAS? I haven't read it since I was in high school or something like that. I just look at pictures and read the ads.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #31 on: January 17, 2013, 04:18:59 PM »
Quote from: RudeWolf on January 17, 2013, 10:54:41 AM
"Even my wife loves it!"

Used to be one of the most used tropes in audio reviews.

lololol, I hate that one too.

I also find people tend to misuse the term "fast."
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #32 on: January 17, 2013, 04:23:14 PM »
Quote from: MuppetFace on January 17, 2013, 03:36:56 PM
"Toe tapping."


I guess that's why I never hear Debussy at HiFi stores or shows. Unless said equipment imposed toe-tapping with Clouds. But then something would be seriously wrong.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #33 on: January 17, 2013, 05:04:08 PM »
Quote from: purrin on January 17, 2013, 05:14:28 AM
Quote from: Analixus on January 17, 2013, 05:11:40 AM
Probably the worst thing is when people ask:

Q - What does it sound like?
A - It sounds like nothing.  (it's wire w/ gain, totally transparent, yada yada)


Yeah, you know me and I assume you are riling me up.

A: It sounds like nothing. (it's wire w/ gain, totally transparent, yada yada)
Purrin: Fuck you.

LOL!

So that's what you are thinking when I say that.  :)p13
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #34 on: January 17, 2013, 05:25:50 PM »
"Confused". Sound quality isn't a skinny teenage boy standing in a locker room during my high school junior year.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #35 on: January 17, 2013, 06:04:12 PM »
Quote from: purrin 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.

Makes sense that Naim and Linn would adopt those terms. Most over rated brands ever. Though I agree with Milos, that the old Rega-philes tended to use it to describe their turntables... probably because they tended to run a bit fast  :)p13

Now someone write a review with every term mentioned in this thread and post it
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #36 on: January 17, 2013, 06:11:38 PM »
Heh yeah. I had an all Linn Aktiv system at one point in my life (I knew a few guys who sold Linn.) It was replaced with DIY speakers, a modded Behringer DCX2496, and Crest CA2 amps. Still, I wouldn't consider Linn or Naim a poor value. There is much worse out there in terms of value proposition.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #37 on: January 17, 2013, 06:33:10 PM »
Quote from: purrin on January 17, 2013, 03:38:39 PM
ROFL. Was that really from TAS? I haven't read it since I was in high school or something like that. I just look at pictures and read the ads.

Yep. From the esteemed Mr. Valin. http://www.theabsolutesound.com/articles/da-vinci-audio-labs-aas-gabrielda-vinci-mk-ii-turntable-with-da-vinci-grand-reference-tonearm-grandezza/

TAS is pretty sad at this point. Even HP left because the pay to play culture had gotten so disgusting there.
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #38 on: January 17, 2013, 06:42:40 PM »
Yes, you have to wonder how the Overdrive keeps winning the TAS Golden Ear award...
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Re: Nonsensical audio terms
« Reply #39 on: January 17, 2013, 06:50:35 PM »
Hey, TAS said the Apex Pinnacle is world class!

Don't get me wrong, I like the Pinnacle a lot, but the way it's being sold and how it's being protected (as of recent) just smells bad.
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