What exactly is textural density??

More than a simple wise post indeed!

Thanks...

@frogman 
It would be great if more reviewers and consumers knew more musicology so they could help connect the worlds of music appreciation and audiophilia with greater accuracy and depth.  I feel like we're always just reinventing the wheel with our amateur descriptions.  An audiophile-focused glossary of music terms would be fun to use.

When a speaker pressurizes the air in the room effectively it causes a density change o the air in the room while listening that is hard to describe but when you get that you will not want to listen to a light thin sound ever again.

Herein lies the difficulty in describing how our brains process sensory stimuli

No two people interpret this exactly the same.

As a musician in an orchestra with 44 other instruments, we spend a lot of time working together to create a rich, multi-layered harmonic sensory experience. Some might call that 'textual density'. Others, simply 'music'. 

String players work together and focus on playing certain notes using specific bowing techniques. When they all get it right, it is magical.

As a brass player, the goal is to always be 'centered' on the note (this is the same concept that opera singers focus on). That is when the richness of the instrument's tone comes alive. 

I try to mimic that sensory experience in my system. Can I discern (hear) the instruments' under tones, harmonics, and partial harmonics? The decay of individual notes? Each section's contribution to the overall sensory landscape?

My goal is to be able to close my eyes while listening to a recording and feel like the musicians are in the room with me.

I happen to have a PHD in Textual Density. My dissertation was on the Rosetta Stone.