What does "voiced" mean to you?


Often times on these threads, reference is made to a product being "voiced", I'm curious what exactly that might mean to Audigoners.
unsound
Voicing is not something that should be done by designers and manufacturers . Voicing is something that the end user does to fine tune a well designed and set up system .
Atmasphere
"In amps and preamps it pretty well means the designer does not know what he's doing"

I guess Nelson Pass does not know what he is doing? LOL
When I purchased my McIntosh MA6200 200 watt per channel solid state receiver I was casually informed that it had been designed to "sound like" their tube amplifiers. Perhaps that put the proverbial bug in my ear but I thought it definitely didn't sound like any other solid state amplifier I've owned, fer sure. Yes, it was a receiver being compared against my separates, perhaps unfairly, but I swapped it out for an MC275 MarkVI which did not sound anything like their solid states. 

Methinks that more or less may qualify as a "voiced" component other than loudspeakers?


OP-

the term refers to a speaker and its designer. "Voiced" can mean a tubed or solid state piece of gear that really brings out its best effort. Or "cabling" (my fave) that will do the same in effect.

Happy Listening!