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In Reply to: RE: The most annoying word in audio: "warm" posted by Les Anderson on September 17, 2016 at 06:01:14
...not sure just exactly what it means in the context of sound. I see the term used frequently to describe the sound of passive components where physical construction and/or physical layout translates to sonic characteristics in the mind of the observer. ex. The sound of paralleled resistors of different ohmic values.
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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.
Another good one!
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