Interesting 2x2 grid to describe what a component sounds like ... do you agree


i stumbled into the following review of the audio note cobra combo amp -- by a site called twittering machines...

https://twitteringmachines.com/audio-note-cobra-lastly-the-best/

so please page down to about 2/3's through it... there is a photo of the unit with an interesting graphic shown -- posing a framework for describing where on a 2-dimensional sonic spectrum this unit sits --

axis 1 -- 'sonorous' vs 'vivid'
axis 2 -- 'euphonic' vs 'analytical'

this particular unit was plotted as highly vivid and somewhat euphonic

then, to further up the ante -- there is a linear scale below the grid -- where the center section is 'intuitive' and the ends of the scale, both directions, are called 'challenging'

i must admit this framework is interesting, if somewhat confusing ... i am not sure i agree that the two axes are mutually exclusive, they seem to have overlap, but there is some distinction -- the horizontal lower scale seems downright stupid to me

thoughts?  
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This chart indicates a very primitive and simplistic understanding. I suspect however that even as our technology advances our understanding of it will always lag behind.  https://youtu.be/9463hBWy0ig?t=28
I like it. It gives you a ballpark as to the sonic fingerprint of the device. That is significantly more useful to me than measurement like THD which bears little to no correlation to what a device sounds like.

I won't use it to decide which amp to buy, but it may influence my shortlist.
i agree one axis is useful

the other i think is captured mostly by the first

x vs y axes should denote independent variables... this is not the case here imho, the 2nd is co-variant