What is meant when someone says a component is lacking soul

when something "lacks soul" it is presenting the music in a analytical way, cold, accurate and detailed, but with no warmth or musicality that would otherwise make you want to listen longer and louder.


Matt M

Hard to explain, but when it's not there, you know it.

A presentation lacking the hurdy-gurdies of dreams, the subjective bells and whistles of our symbolism factory...which are never really "there" in the first place.

Only "golden ears" can hear "soul"!