What Does "Speakers Are Designed To Sound Coherent, Relaxed, Detailed, And Dynamic" Mean?

[EDLIU]

Another question, what does "flat frequency response" mean?

Quote from the web:
A piece of gear (or a system) is said to have flat response when it outputs all frequencies at equal levels, assuming that a flat signal was used as input. That is to say, no frequency is boosted or cut in level by the “natural” frequency response of the gear.

Is it the same as "neutral"?

Is a system with flat frequency response good or bad?

 

[Kal Rubinson]

Another question, what does "flat frequency response" mean?
Quote from the web:
A piece of gear (or a system) is said to have flat response when it outputs all frequencies at equal levels, assuming that a flat signal was used as input. That is to say, no frequency is boosted or cut in level by the “natural” frequency response of the gear.

Is it the same as "neutral"?

As far as frequency response is concerned. yes.

Is a system with flat frequency response good or bad?

Yes.

It seems strange to even question this. Flat and neutral, as well as low distortion, are desirable characteristics.

 

[EDLIU]

If flat frequency response = neutral. Then the following should be, speakers with flat frequency response should sound neutral (instead of warm).

I have heard many speakers that have a flat frequency response, without being heavy on bass or rolled off treble, that still sound warm.

 

[EDLIU]

A speaker or system with rounded off transients will sound soft and mellow. There are a few ways to achieve this.

One is if the gear (Amp, Preamp, DAC, etc) has limited bandwidth. e.g. the amp has a -3dB point at 17kHz in the frequency response. The amp simply can't make a square wave at 10kHz if this is the case.

Another is if the speaker drivers have a lot of overhang. Meaning they can't start and stop when told to do so.

Another is if the speakers are not set up properly. The more the arrival time differs between the two speakers the more time smearing. This will lead to transients being less crisp.

Hope this helps. perhaps others will chime in.

Seem like these speakers are not well build.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

If flat frequency response = neutral. Then the following should be, speakers with flat frequency response should sound neutral (instead of warm).

They should but it depends on how and where the frequency response is measured as well as how and where you are listening to them. The acoustical conditions are critical.

 

[Mikem53]

When one describes that: the speakers are designed to sound coherent, relaxed, detailed and dynamic, what does he/she mean?

Thanks.

when you hear it, you will know..

 

[EDLIU]

What does "more forward" mean?

 

[Kal Rubinson]

What does "more forward" mean?

Less backward? To me, it means that some instruments/voices sound closer and more projected into the room.

 

[EDLIU]

What about "depth"? What does "depth" mean? Thanks in advance.

Quote from the web:
Depth is the front-to-back space in a mix and is a tricker area to navigate than the previous two. Whereas some aspects of music production are driven by emotion or technical prowess, principles of depth draw on “real world” phenomena that deal with how sound moves through a space.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

What about "depth"? What does "depth" mean? Thanks in advance.

Have you looked here: https://www.stereophile.com/reference/50/index.html

 

[EDLIU]

1.Frequency (or amplitude) response.

2.Closely bunched image in A+B double-mono mode that occupies a very narrow space between the loudspeakers.

What do the above mean?

 

[Kal Rubinson]

1.Frequency (or amplitude) response.

Generally, it refers to the response of a device which is graphed as amplitude (Y-axis) vs. frequency (X-axis). Time, per se, is not a component.

2.Closely bunched image in A+B double-mono mode that occupies a very narrow space between the loudspeakers.

A mono signal played over a pair of (stereo) speakers should appear to the listener as a confined single source midway between the speakers.

 

[Flamenko]

I have always suspected that audiophile vocabulary is a useless invention, or useful only for marketing....

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I have always suspected that audiophile vocabulary is a useless invention, or useful only for marketing....

Or an attempt to describe one's perceptions to others, flawed though it may be.