It's a lazy meaningless term. The proof is in the fact that someone decides to defend it in the OP. It is like calling food "tasty". Good audio writers never use the term because they don't have to. They have the writing skills to describe what they are hearing without resorting to meaningless shorthand. It also gets thrown around more often with regard to low to mid-priced gear. It bothers me less than PRAT because that too is a horse-crap term. "Toe-tapping" is another. I have one for all these stupid terms; "cringe-worthy".
Thelonious Monk is known to have said, "writing about music is like dancing to architecture". The same can be said for trying to describe attributes of audio gear but since we gear-heads love to read and write about our hobby, here we are.
In this age of the internet, there is a democratization of audio reviewing. We have webzines like 6Moons and Parttimeaudiophile in which the level of writing/reviewing is a whole step down from the likes of Mike Fremer, Art Dudley and Jon Atkinson and then below the webzines we have "the 600 lb fat guys living in their mom's basements" putting up whatever they want on this Board and others. And no, the reference to 600lb fat guys is not meant literally, it means some anonymous person who could be anywhere with little or no meaningful knowledge or experience.
I have multiple hobbies and gravitate to multiple forums/boards. On each, one has to rifle through a ton of chaff to find any wheat.
Thelonious Monk is known to have said, "writing about music is like dancing to architecture". The same can be said for trying to describe attributes of audio gear but since we gear-heads love to read and write about our hobby, here we are.
In this age of the internet, there is a democratization of audio reviewing. We have webzines like 6Moons and Parttimeaudiophile in which the level of writing/reviewing is a whole step down from the likes of Mike Fremer, Art Dudley and Jon Atkinson and then below the webzines we have "the 600 lb fat guys living in their mom's basements" putting up whatever they want on this Board and others. And no, the reference to 600lb fat guys is not meant literally, it means some anonymous person who could be anywhere with little or no meaningful knowledge or experience.
I have multiple hobbies and gravitate to multiple forums/boards. On each, one has to rifle through a ton of chaff to find any wheat.