"The Old Fogey" wrote in message
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Can anyone define 'Slam' in the context of audio power amps?


OK, I'll bite.....

I have to say I can never understand why people get so het up about the
common usage of subjective terms in the English language (in the context of
audio gear or anything else) - it's what our language is especially good at.
(Although I gather there are 11 different words for different types of fart
in the Arab world.... :-)

If anyone *doesn't* understand what's usually meant by simple phrases like
'slam', air', 'soundstaging', warmth', 'colour', 'tone', texture' etc. then
they must live in an isolated little world utterly devoid of poetry, imagery
and the like. Given that all such terms are in themselves fairly
meaningless, they are surely only used to convey abstract concepts in
attempt to convey an emotional response to a set of circumstances or a
personal (audio) experience. (Other than in the context of Sales BS, of
course, where all normal meaning is usually reversed for effect!)

Thus, I would tender:

'Slam', in the context of sounds obtained from an amplifier/speaker
combination (you need both) - if you ever heard it yourself, you would know
what it was.....