A rich harmonic structure to the presented signal.
as in the depth of the harmonics and micro harmonics.
rich meaning not light and peaky, but lots of harmonic and sub harmonic layering of signal. the richness of resonance that real instruments can create and generally not properly presented by reproduction equipment. eg, early digital ,where all cymbal strikes tend to sound more similar than different, which we know is not true in the real world of hearing real cymbals.
we hear mostly via transients, micro transients and the timing between those peaks. Our ears are like positive peak edge sensing diodes, and we combine all these peaks together, in timing differences and levels of intermixing, to form the heard signal in our ear/brain system. How the cilia function re neurological input tied to cilia function.
that we hear only about 10% of the signal, which is all we really need to hear. We make up 100% of our impression interpretation of signal in that approximate 10% heard. so that 10% is required to be exceedingly accurate, otherwise we get huge shifts in what is heard, where we can then differentiate nearly microscopically. 100% of our hearing analysis is in that small 10% of the signal.
This small areas of signal heard, are the parts that are damaged in reproduction via the source points for the the vast majority of distortion in reproduction, in an engineering measurement sense,and in the mechanical or real world inference and integration sense of electricity in high delta as it integrates with various materials on the shape and atomic levels..
Where slew and so on becomes all important. where the micro differentials imparted by the complex LCR of the mechanics and the atomic aspects of the materials involved, all come into play.
eg, magnetically sensitive materials and their phase distortions in how they shape signals in high delta. note the hysteresis like curve of the complex impedance response (as charted) to transient function in cheap resistor materials, like steel end caps. then the molecular level self noise on loading and release of all materials, steel, dielectrics, and so on. The inherent noise considerations of transistors. how the shape of the materials shapes the complex field and current flow response and materials integration.
proper gear with lower distortion in these all critical aspects, will tend to have a non peaky rich and unobscured by distortions in complex harmonic and sub harmonic layering, in the presentation. Not just even ordered harmonics and less odd ordered harmonics but a simple better presentation.
Every peak and micro peak unobscured and placed exactly in shape and timing and level, exactly as close to the orignal aspects of these signal components, as can be.
thus a textural density of signal. Moving in that direction, in what is heard.
How can that be so hard to understand when all of the data points are squarely in the wheel house of published understandings.... of how the ear works .....as compared to signal reproduction in electronics and loudspeaker systems?
All this has been open accepted science and on the record, for what, getting into decades now. Piece it together. It’s all right there.
Btw, most cables screw up in these areas, that is the nature of cable distortions when dealing with complex transient signals in cables, so that is why differences can be heard. it’s all we hear, is the areas where a cable distorts.
the teo audio liquid metal distorts these areas of signal the least, compared to that of ’wire’. I could explain that in detail but those understandings are hard to come by and represent serious IP value.
I’ll go as far to say that it is definitely there but I’m not obligated to explain it to anyone. Science should be free, IMO and IME, but this is conflated business, in this case...
