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Collection of buzzwords decribing sound character?

I am looking for a place that gives a good defifinition of all the buzzwords describing sound characters. I have an audiophile bible, but they don't have all of them. If there is no such place, I think we can make a collective one here.

I am thinking of:

Fast
Sweet/warm (a kind of can feel it, but what exactly in word??)
I think I know quite a lot of them, but sometime it's hard to put it in words?

Doesn't anyone know such place exist??

Thanks,

Ake
ake
clueless
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Linkwitz Lab Glossary

S pile Glossary
basement
245 posts
 
At my local shop here I have some trouble cummunicating as well.
I onced asked about how good a tuner was, and the reply I got was that it was so sensitive, you have to watch what you say around it.
Another time I saw an old accuphase amp, with variable damping. I asked what it would do, and he said it made it sound more liquid.
I went in another time, and asked about the output of a particular rotel. He told me, so I picked it up. I said "that's pretty light for 70 watts", and he said, "oh, you mean the weighted output".
avguygeorge
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Good stuff Mr. Basement !!--"Liquid",-- comes in a double,leak proof container. Huge "sound-stage" But the shipping on that would be prohibitive. As for "sound -you -can-touch"--- I hope it doesn't touch back.My favorite term for the moment would be --- affordable--- In that it sounds so good;you can afford it,? yes.
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driver
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To expound on affordable-how about "Priced to Sell" Yowsers, what advertising genius came up with that one?
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