What does "voiced" mean to you?

Atmasphere
"In amps and preamps it pretty well means the designer does not know what he's doing"

I guess Nelson Pass does not know what he is doing? LOL

Spectrum analysis with EQ.

When I purchased my McIntosh MA6200 200 watt per channel solid state receiver I was casually informed that it had been designed to "sound like" their tube amplifiers. Perhaps that put the proverbial bug in my ear but I thought it definitely didn't sound like any other solid state amplifier I've owned, fer sure. Yes, it was a receiver being compared against my separates, perhaps unfairly, but I swapped it out for an MC275 MarkVI which did not sound anything like their solid states. 

Methinks that more or less may qualify as a "voiced" component other than loudspeakers?

OP-

the term refers to a speaker and its designer. "Voiced" can mean a tubed or solid state piece of gear that really brings out its best effort. Or "cabling" (my fave) that will do the same in effect.

Happy Listening!

Usually in speaker design it means that the designer stopped measuring and made tweaks based on subjective listening impression. Changing the "voice" of a speaker if you will.

This can be very small such as trying out a bypass capacitor, or bigger, like changing the tweeter to woofer balance until the designer likes what he / she hears.

The term makes most sense with loudspeakers, but can be applied to electronics.

Personally, once I found my favorite reference curve, that is my crossover design, with the exception of minute changes made by bypass caps.

Best,

Erik