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What the heck do these terms mean?

I read a lot about audio equipment and some descriptions come up occasionally about the components sound qualities that to me are confusing. Most of the time I regard these descriptions as by someone with little knowledge about audio equipment that are trying to sound impressive.

Most of these terms are used in describing speakers but I have also seen them used on cables, amps , electronics of all sorts etc..
So, can someone help define these common descriptive terms?

1. Treble/ bass is dry- Huh? What does this mean?
2. Treble/bass is wet.- Huh? Again, what does this mean?
3. Organic sounding- Huh, huh?
4. Musical sounding.- What? Compared to non musical sounding?

The last one can be used with just about any description of any component or speaker performance.

There may be more...

ozzy

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ozzy OP
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Here is a few more I just read in Stereophile.

5. Slight dryness- maybe just a little wet?
6. Liquidity- still wet or is this wetter?
7. Color- In the late 60’s I remember some colors while playing music, but not so much these days.

ozzy
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tomic601
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Cars, wine, violins, cigars, fish, high end audio..... Flyrod.....

define crisp tactile turn in with a whisker of oversteer ?

ya, thought so

riding along ( verbally or otherwise ) will never be the same as driving....

so as humans ( maybe ) we are left with words...

what makes a Strad a Stratocaster???
ebm
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They mean nothing.
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tomic601
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There is of course the myopic, I know it only when I hear it crowd... what a small sample size to live life by....

try this experiment: look at your spice rack ( count unique ) then head out to a foodie place - just do the count.....

tough to try them all....

wonder how we will know.... what’s next ????


edcyn
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How is it that quality science fiction or historical fiction is able to magically come alive, this despite a more than decent chance the writer wasn't on the scene, vid-cam or notepad in hand to accurately crunch the details?  Why are aesthetics so important to us?  Why do numbers so often fail when trying to accurately document emotional responses?  Sure, getting high is great, but how is it that such an objectively miserable-tasting potion like Scotch can taste so good?


In other words, escape your objective straitjacket and embrace the subjective.  It's what makes art art.  Sure, it takes a lot of science to create quality audio gear, but in the end it's the taste of a component's creator(s) that is the straw that stirs the drink. 
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