How to Describe What You Hear

[StephenJK]

I was going to reply to “the problem with subjective impressions” but perhaps this deserves a new topic. 
 

i subscribed to The Absolute Sound for many years, from the late 70s to the late 80s. That’s neither here nor there, other than what I learned from Harry Pearson and a number of other reviewers. 
 

And that is, you need to develop a vocabulary to be able to properly explain how and why this sounds different from that. 
 

There’s an entire descriptive universe between “it sucks” and “it rocks”, never mind blacker blacks and a lower noise floor. 
 

Wasn’t someone developing a matrix for audiophiles years ago to give some hints as to what all that torturous vocabulary is all about?

 

Maybe we need to do something like that over here at AS. 

[StephenJK]

19 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

Sounds Like? An Audio Glossary J. Gordon Holt, Jul 29, 1993

I’ve never seen that before despite having subscribed to Stereophile for many years. Thanks for that.