I liken bright to shrill/ harsh though many may think that is an extreme comparison. To my ears that is what I hear. Warm is the sweet spot, feels good, sounds good, “right” if you will. Dark is heavy, defined but not in your face. Good lower end impact without much overtone. Being a drummer, these terms are often used as descriptors of cymbals, drums too at times, but always cymbals.
Need definitions of: Dark; Warm; and Bright
Throughout thousands of postings, the descriptive adjectives of dark, warm, and bright are employed. What does each of them actually mean? Are these meanings solely subjective, or can they be seen in displays of frequency responses and distortion across an audio spectrum?
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These terms mean nothing.This sentence is literally talking about itself and its author. Nothing but poetic license!This one too. Why must ignorance declare itself so boldly? Hmmm. It’s seemed to obvious to mention before, but clearly it’s not: experience require *words* to be communicated. Experience of music can change when we compare with others and use new words. Happens with smell, too. The point, Roxy, is that you don't always "know them when you hear them." You often need words to know them. This is why parents teach children the words for things and qualities in their experience. So they can know them, designate them in the future, compare them, etc. Without words, we're dumb brutes. |
doogiehowser
" Imagine
if you had some amazing tool, let’s call it a frequency response plot
(preferably with THD), that lets you visualize these things instead of
guessing at them. Alas, the technology to create these magical plots is
beyond most audiophiles." What you describe is helpful, useful, and practical for those who seek visual confirmation of what they hear but of course for many audiophiles there is no need to "translate" what they hear in to another form entirely and completely simply for the joy, amusement, and entertainment of "seeing" a sound. |
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