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In Reply to: RE: Silly Question: What does "tight" Bass mean to you? posted by LtMandella on May 24, 2020 at 09:31:10:
I would say tightness = controlled in the sense of accurately expressing. Here is why.Attending concerts in nice seats at Severance Hall in Cleveland, I asked myself just such questions: what is accurate bass?
I noted, as a rule the bass at Severance was kind of plush. One might even call it ever so mildly loose. It was less "precise" than what my audiophile ears had expected! (13th row center, on the floor, mixed with front row center, first balcony -- floor is most thrilling, balcony a bit more cerebral but both moving)
However, the percussion and double bass sections of the Cleveland Orchestra know how to play the hall! They could make the place hum, they could cause snaps and starts that take your breath away. It is hard to say whether the place was loose or tight, because the players own that acoustic. Beautiful stuff, we are a lucky species.
The thing is, it was always controlled, I realized. They played that room,they played those pieces. The bass was in place, right there, and right when needed. Sometimes it lays low, out times it snaps and takes over the acoustic. Things are different down there. Neptune's realm, and whatnot.
In a good recording, that is what I listen for. The control the players have, the surprising charms of those instruments, that part of the music,and the halls or mixes.
Listen to bass at a good place that presents a decent acoustic (good luck!). Tune your system to do *that*.
edit: this is of course the "absolute sound" solution to the natural language problem. The natural language problem is very real, but if you appeal to a *listening* reference point to make a system "be" something you are trying to pin a word on (tight, airy, authoritative, dictatorial, ebullient, whatever) at least you have that listening reference point even if natural language, by definition, inadequate.
The problem with the absolute sound approach, is what is the listening reference for non-acoustic forum-ed music types? In other words, what if I want to listen to something that is essentially a studio reproduction?
Man, that is the rub. I just avoid the mess, and happily get to Severance Hall whenever I need to calibrate my sonic head.
/ optimally proportioned triangles are our friends
Edits: 06/01/20
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