What exactly is PRaT???

Seriously? What could be more essential to the performing arts than pace, rhythm and timing? And what could be more easily comprehensible? Pace is the speed, rhythm is the repetitive beat, timing is the emphasis.

@dogearedaudio  Why is it that people here are having such a hard time defining it?   We can define tonality.  We can define imaging and 3D soundstage.  We can define a speaker’s disappearing act.  Seriously?  I’m a drummer and if I’m locked in with my bass player the band is on, so pretty sure I get timing, rhythm, and pace.  What you’re talking about that should be so easy to hear isn’t so in my book.  Do you even play an instrument?   

@soix

Yes, I've played instruments, though not very well.  But I've been an actor, singer, stage director and audiobook narrator for over 40 years.  I certainly know what pace, rhythm and timing mean.  They're essential to the work I do every day!  I utterly fail to see what it is you want defined.  Surely you've played with musicians who can't keep time, or who don't "swing," or who don't convey any nuance or subtlety in their performances.  There are audio systems that fail in this regard as well.  Whether you've heard them or not I couldn't say.  You seem to be highly resistive to the idea that such a thing could exist.   I have no idea why.  Woolly, sloppy bass in a speaker or amp is simply not going to convey the basic snap of the rhythm properly.  If the midrange is bleached out I'm going to miss some of the subtle timings a singer might inject into a performance.   I can't understand why this is hard to grasp.

A please define for me what "imaging" and "3D soundstage" mean.  In relation to what?  And why are they important?

PRaT is just another stupid subjective term. 

@tunehead Provides the only realistic answer. Dirk and Lerxst approved.

I do not see his post.