In article ,
says...
What does "upper mids being airy" mean?

According to one source: Airy - Spacious. Open. Instruments sound like
they are surrounded by a large reflective space full of air. Good
reproduction of high frequency reflections.


Was the "meaty" bass
pork or cow? How large is an epic soundstage? 10 m?


Reviewers have been using those and similar terms since the year dot and
I would have thought that anyone interested in audio reproduction would
be familiar with them. Magazines and websites publish glossaries.

There has been talk of standardising reviewing terms by some magazines,
John Atkinson; the editor of Stereophile; who used to post to a couple
of newsgroups, wrote a few years ago about attempting to get his writers
to use the terms listed here
https://www.stereophile.com/reference/50/index.html

It didn't work, the writers hated it, the readers didn't think much of
it either (Negative comments such as reviewing by numbers, removes all
personality etc) and the plan was soon dropped.
















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Ken