In Reply to: Smear, smeared, smearing... posted by Steve O on September 17, 2016 at 09:50:03:
Smear can be a meaningful term, as long as it's qualified. For example, time smear, e.g. a system that plays notes with slowed attack and extended sustain, fast notes blending into each other or obscuring each other. Or image smear, a lack of precision in rendering images. Or I've heard smearing used to refer to poor separation of musical lines or instruments.
But I agree with you that "smear" is too often used as a generic slur when dissing somebody else's design or component choice, e.g. those Elna Silmic coupling caps smear the sound. Used in that way, it doesn't mean much of anything.
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