@tunehead Provides the only realistic answer. Dirk and Lerxst approved.
I do not see his post.
What exactly is PRaT???
Ok, it’s like this thing and is associated with “toe tapping” and such. I confess, I don’t get it. Apparently companies like Linn and Naim get it, and I don’t and find it a bit frustrating. What am I missing? I’m a drummer and am as sensitive as anyone to timing and beats, so why don’t I perceive this PRaT thing that many of you obviously do and prize as it occurs in stereo systems? When I read many Brit reviews a lot of attention goes to “rhythm” and “timing” and it’s useless to me and I just don’t get it. If someone can give me a concrete example of what the hell I’m not getting I’d sincerely be most appreciative. To be clear, enough people I greatly respect consider it a thing so objectively speaking it’s either something I can’t hear or maybe just don’t care about — or both. Can someone finally define this “thing” for me cause I seriously wanna learn something I clearly don’t know or understand.
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@audition__audio And subjectivity is just stupid when it comes to music, right? |
Some songs have it and some do not. Some stereos can reproduce it and some can not. I just happened to put together a system recently that beats you over the head with prat. Wish you could hear it. It blows my mind what this system can do and I feel a little smug y’all missing out. It is a completely different way to experience music. Not detail, not soundstaging, not tonality, not bass. It’s a pulsation going through the whole song /band top to bottom. Technically YG talks about phase coherence through the x-over. It is not the same thing as a 1st order x-over. I found a 4" driver with long throw Xmax timing was off vs a normal Xmax 4" driver.
These have it on my system: CHAI - sayonara complex - LIVE at STUDIO COAST (The CD studio version does not) |
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