SuburbanAmbient Definitive Guide to Describing HiFi

For those of you who just need a laugh! Here is the list contributed by the locals on Vinyl Asylum of the phrases that make them go 'huh??!?' Also useful for those of you who do not want to use the HiFi Describer.

• "I could hear the rosin on the violin bows."
• "Pants leg flapping bass."
• "Images floated on a cushion of air".......
• "It took only two minutes of listening
• "Perfect Sound Forever "
• "Be warned: this baby is ruthlessly revealing of upstream components and
• source material."
• "I found it hard to describe, as though the component has no real 'character' of its' own"
• "The bass is fast and tight like a puckering sphincter..."
• "the last word in detail."
• "There's more 'there' there"
• "This component has no business sounding this good at its price range!"
• "My wife dropped what she was doing in the kitchen.."
• "So Much More Transparency"
• "Images floated on a cushion of air"
• "palpable soundstage"
• "...woolly bass"
• "It took only two minutes of listening.... "
• "Flat earther vs. Round earther sound"
• "It makes music sound musical!"
• "This thing blows away the LP12!!! "
• "Toe -tapping ain't in it - involuntary whole-body movement is what this is all about."
• "Holy Mother of Crap, I can't believe how good this thing is!"
• "an order of magnitude better"
• "the sound has more organic substance"
• "...my jaw dropped..."
• "Technicolor Sound"
• Pace, Rhythm, and Timing" (aka PRAT)
• "Whitish highs"
• "I was transported to the original event"
• "The walls melted away"
• "Like a deer caught in the headlights"
• "The speakers disappear"
• "Has no sound of its own"
• "The notes float on a cushion of air"
• "Plumbs the depths"
• "The performer was in the room with me"
• "A dark, burnished, copper, wooden sound..."
• "A white, thin, bare, bleached, light sound..."
• "I became involved with the music, as opposed to just hearing it..."
• "Veiled"
• "Blacker background"
• "Laid-back presentation"
• "Polite"
• "Phasey"
• "Vivid"
• "Overall resolution increased by an order of magnitude."
• "...soundtage as wide as the Grand Canyon...
• "It had that lit from within quality..."
• "The improvement was NOT subtile!"
• "you'd have to spend [item price X 10] or more to better this item"
• "I found my foot tapping to the music..."
• "It was so good I kept forgeting to write my notes"
• "it sounded as if a veil had been lifted"
• "It took only two minutes of listening to note a significant improvement."