Don't you love hi-fi....can't define it, but we all have it..or are in the process of searching for it...Now if someone finds something ,are you sure????
Pbb...while I agree that PRaT is very subjective, I don't believe it is fiction. When a large group of people can find agreement on an experience consistently, even if not quantitatively confirmed, it is not fiction.
Ask any person what "quality" or "complexity" is. I've read that even people in primitive cultures can find agreement on these terms, without similar backgrounds. How do quantitatively describe them?
Sorry. In making my comments above, I neglected to sound off on PRaT. I like to think of it in terms of the naturalness of the sound. How "live" and "musical" it comes across.
If you could imagine that music has vowels (air, holography) and consonants (detail, impact), a tendency to accentuate the consonants would translate to a component having better PRaT. As a representation of timing, it can be very deceptive, because as the music opens up it appears to slow down.
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