Sterility does not equate to transparency. Tone, timbre, sound staging, fullness and realism can most definitely point to transparency if that is in the original recording.
The lack of those qualities can take a natural and pleasing production of a real event and render it lifeless, or sterile, as teajay pointed out.
All the best, Nonoise |
@nonoise Tone: Frequency response. Timbre: Distortion. Soundstage: Channel matching and channel separation. Fullness: Frequency response. Realism: Nonsense description. The DACs I mentioned all do those well, behind human audibility. MQA you can see, using terms like sterile or lifesless causes confusion, it’s best to actually talk about what the product is doing good or doing bad, rather than make up description words that actually don’t directly describe, like calling a Samsung TV’s picture as feminine and a Sony TV as masculine. |
tim·bre/ˈtambər/noun- the character or quality of a musical sound or voice as distinct from its pitch and intensity."trumpet mutes with different timbres"synonyms:tone, sound, sound quality, voice, voice quality, color, tone color, tonality, resonance"the timbre of the reeds"
tone/tōn/noun- 1. a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength."the piano tone appears monochrome or lacking in warmth"synonyms:timbre, sound, sound quality, voice, voice quality, color, tonality"the tone of the tuba"
I could go one but It will sound like I'm talking to some silly AI program which cannot hear but "knows" measurements. All the best, Nonoise |
@nonoise If you read more about it, timbre is just about distortion, it’s why a guitar and a piano playing the same frequency key sounds different.
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@mzkmxcv,
You have a peculiar way of seeing (hearing?) things.
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