Sound is DARK / FORWARD / TRANSPARENT?

Jeffreybehr, yea what's up?

What can I say? You're not an artist till someone else says you are, right?:)

"Ironic how insufficient the internet truly is as a medium for understanding hi fi or high end sound. Words will always fall short. Yet its all we got to communicate to others what we hear. HElp me please!"

It is our fault! The fault of the/any audiophile community that there is not a shared glossary of terms that can be taught to newcomers... I am a relative newcomer and have tried to learn this language of explanation, only to run into more people misusing the terminology (or using it differently than someone else), in effect diluting it and our understanding of described sounds.

So don't use the terminology. I don't. You seem to be able to communicate.

Sound and the way people hear it is a very individual thing just like the way people experience wine. Putting these sensuous stimuli into absolute terminology will always fall short. Wine descriptions crack me up.

For example when trying to describe sound the word "dark" can mean one thing to me in one context and in another context mean something totally different.

The lack of body language I think is the major factor in the failure to precisely communicate these things on a forum. There are always lots of absolutes among a group in person.