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Your vote: Most Useless Audio Adjective

From what I've seen in online audio discussion forums such as Audiogon, words like warm, taut, wooly, and forward can upset even died in the wool audiophiles. While some may have a hard time getting their arms around them, most of the terms seem quite appropriate to me. You have to develop some list of terms in order to convey a description of a component's sonics, or to delineate it from another component.

However, I have noticed the description "self effacing" creeping into more and more reviews, and it flat out boggles my mind. Initially, it seemed to fit into the context it was being used - affordable or downright cheap gear, that was fun and lively. However, now that I've read the term being used to describe quite a serious piece of high end kit, the time has come to point out how ridiculous things are getting.

I had to laugh out loud thinking of the snootiest, most condescending audio dealer I know who was carrying this brand. Using the term "self effacing" with anything had to do with this guy was akin to describing Phyllis Diller a young, hot sex symbol.

What is your most useless audio adjective???
trelja
nilthepill
842 posts
 
"The bass (or mid range or substitute any positive attribute here) is the best heard yet-in my room'' Almost every reviewer has remarked this a thousand time... ......... absolutely meaningless.
nilthepill
842 posts
 
The bass had "center of earth" foundation????? What bass freq they are talking about?
sherod
1,690 posts
 

Should we thank The Absolute Sound for giving us "Yin" and "Yang"? I always resented these words in describing equipment.
mechans
3,048 posts
 
Its as though a veil had been lifted and someone took three layers of blankets off my speakers when I put the isolation blocks under the ultra phase 3 modification of my Esoteric Reiymo combation of the X-1 and 777 CDP fused into a single box only can play one CD though don't worry any audiophool Knows that is required the other transport is hidden as a back up for digital DVD suround when h=needed but that is the Level 5 mod. The mods were only $5,000 for the phase 3 mods only By Erik Von Recklinghouse oF Intensive mods located in Southern Peru. However he's backed up about 8 months, due to the ultrafine micro damping he was mainly damps with isodamp from parts depress acting as RMI RFI RPM RP RPQ RPMx shielding sheilding on every bare spot The blackness is incedible.

There are some of these come as apackage readily available for a discount of only $4000 and with the extra Jittering satelite controlled super clocking- from Interforests Harvey in Louisiana (the Flood was nowhere near the warehouse just missed it).
Plus the floating isolation platform which Al Swearinger of Ultra Tweaks Men was imperative and convincing was totaley and an asolutley needed the Fabulous spring loaded Super Deluxe Isolation Platform that had to be used (which consisted of ping pong blls over painted and cryo treated MDF and put on Home Depot Brass plumbing fixture points,)It was was imperative or the last level of micro ultra data retreival would be lost and more focus would't be brought to the music.
Total for the CDP plus the mods is a $17,00 for the basic CDP, plus $5,00 for the mods, plus $3500 for the platform only $25,500 I know most you should by all means find this investment in quality to acieve true sonic Nirvana. It was well worth the money believe it, come fee for auditions at my home in North Datoka.
The first $5,00 takes it all. Reason for selling is to upgrade to separates.
jax2
3,031 posts
 
Speaking of useless adjectives; a while back, I designed a t-shirt (and other useless products) using quotes ripped right off these very pages (I swear...I copied them verbatim...plagerism, right here on the Gon'!! Imagine that?!). Check out the t-shirt here and click on "view larger" then "zoom in on image" in order to read a few many more useless adjectives in action.

(Pay no attention to the shameless plug for the cheap swag).

Marco
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