What exactly is textural density??

“Textural density” in audio is the (partly successful) appropriation of a term in music which refers to the way that instruments/voices and their respective musical lines in a musical composition are used. Each musical line is a “layer” and the “density” of the composition refers to the overall character of the sound as determined by the number of layers employed in the composition. One or few layers results in a “thin” musical texture. Many layers, a “thick texture”.

I think one can then extrapolate and in audio, if one thinks of the naturally occurring harmonics in musical sounds as “layers” themselves, a reproduced musical sound which expresses an accurate (natural) number and combination of harmonics can be said to be “texturally dense”. One that is lacking in full harmonic expression can be said to be “thin” or “threadbare”.

You are right i think about the musical origin....

In acoustic concept speaking about "Timbre",  it is the difference between pure tone/noise and the spectral envelope and the time envelope in an instrument playing a note and the particular  way this instrument body vibrations  will  give the note in an acoustical context like a room, but it is my own interpretation only....



The fact that a reviewer use this concept meaningfully or not,for other motives, dont deprive it of his deep possible meanings...

What I like most about this thread is that none of the well meaning and generous definitions posted so far can be proven to be anything like the others.

it is also sometimes easy to put aside dead trees to discover living one .....

Textural density is a concept in music and in acoustic....It does not takes hours of brain power to figure it out....

What else? It is not an assembly of words by chance....

Even if a reviewer use it like an accidental coining of words, which i dont know, dont deprive it of his meaning....

You simply have chosen the wrong set of words to criticize the reviewer, thinking that these 2 words in his mouth means nothing, but they means something in any mouth.... Sorry.... 😁

These words make sense, but i dont know if the reviewer use them accurately and honestly....

i am sorry, I am new to the high end audio world. I read this sentence and could not understand any of it. Can you help?

I forget that many of your thread are only bait for discussion in a sarcastic way sometimes....I apologize for being slow brain...

I am too direct person to be swift zig- zaguing

Anyway your thread are interesting.....

Erik, actually, I think that Ohnwy61 got it right in the first post here. My definition (the audio part) mirrors his.

Good points, mahgister.