Top two most important sound qualities


In case you didn't know, it's 2023 and this website still hasn't implemented a polling feature, so I can't define a selection of sound qualities to choose from and see results in a grouped, organized fashion. Boo hoo!

 

If you had to pick two of the typically referenced sound qualities that are most important to you to optimizing the enjoyment of your system, what are they? You know what I mean, right? Could be a certain frequency range and some particular quality that you for in it, or any quality that applies across all frequencies, etc.

(Note: "Sound qualities" mentioned here do not include anything that refers to physical attributes of your system or listening room, such as acoustical treatments, types of components, types of source material, physical tweaks, etc. It's only a reference to subjectively appreciated qualities.)

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@carlsbad2 Wait, are you serious? Hahaha I think they would be so useful and easy. You just click a button and get views. Rapid engagement with easily delineated subject matter and instantaneous statistics. Why vote against that?

Lack of grain, tonality, soundstage depth.

I used to be big on soundstage width, pinpoint accuracy, and hard hitting bass. For some reason these have become less important over the years. Not sure why.

Tonality and ability to produce individual rhythm pattern of each instrument. 

@gladmo I'm not a big fan of polls because I have no faith in the opinion of the majority but I was just joking.

Part of my intent here was to see how many choose tonality over all the other options they can think of...