My best description would be "fullness"- the sound is deep and rich and envelopes you in a warm cocoon...
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spicer
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Immersive, yes, that is that/those experiences. The right temperature, warmth, is a necessary part of it. You're welcome my friend and thank you for sharing this esoteric bit of audio lore.
DesertRatt
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According to the Stereophile dictionary by J. Gordon Holt: "bloom: A quality of expansive richness and warmth, like the live body sound of a cello."
No special category for "tube bloom."
Ref: https://www.stereophile.com/content/sounds-audio-glossary
IMO, words are not sounds. One's sense of sound is bound up in qualia, which really is not shared knowledge. Thus, any words intended to describe sound are based on transmogrification, and aside from serving personal reference points, don't translate well to other brains.
After 50-odd years of hearing people describe sound, I've concluded the value to be roughly nil.
SolderIron
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When realized thoughts were keeping sleep away in bed, I tried to think of nothing. All I came up with was complete blackness...for a while anyway.Random thought: When we think of nothing, are we really thinking about something?
Enigmatic or what?
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DesertRatt
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The obsession we all have to convince others that "Our Sound" is best, or right, or better, or more accurate, is really pointless.
spicer
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All I could come with was what's behind the blackness and discovered thinking of nothing without thinking about it.
SolderIron
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I may be an outliner in this group. Hardware is only a mean to produce music (that is the sound, voice, and words) creating a feeling/emotion in me. Whether what I hear is the original or a copy isn't important. Tube or solid state may sound different. That difference has not made much difference in my listening.
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The air from a fart travels at around 7MPH (Google AI), but the sound of the fart travels at the speed of sound (767 mph at sea level).
I remember a guy in English class having this heated argument with the teacher, that fart sounds were really mini sonic booms.
Anyhow, have a nice Columbus Day!
I remember a guy in English class having this heated argument with the teacher, that fart sounds were really mini sonic booms.
Anyhow, have a nice Columbus Day!
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Yes! It's similar to why I like some females more than others. I'm happy with my decisions — I'm not going to try to convince naysayers.
Often, it's just a waste of time. Try to surround yourself with people who support you, not those who constantly cast doubt on you.
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Reminds me of a few things:
When some hi-fi manufacturers paid famous musicians to recommend their product, I laughed - those people will hear the music no matter what it's played through.
Some early phonograph makers quoted people recruited from the general public for hidden A/B tests as saying that the record sounded just like the real performer. I believe it wasn't a lie, but people were discounting the surface noise as not part of the music.
I heard of one radio host with a program of old records who would play a blank record in the background of his announcements, thus creating a constant level of surface noise throughout the program that listeners could easily listen "through."
I suppose that when you pay people to say things, those "things" may not be 100% true. Maybe the more you pay them, the further from 100%.
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SolderIron
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The wife wants a distance of at least 10 ft whenever she suspects I fartedThe air from a fart travels at around 7MPH (Google AI), but the sound of the fart travels at the speed of sound (767 mph at sea level).
I remember a guy in English class having this heated argument with the teacher, that fart sounds were really mini sonic booms.
Anyhow, have a nice Columbus Day!
10 feet and a fan.The wife wants a distance of at least 10 ft whenever she suspects I farted
Those trapped farts under the bedsheets can be a rude surprise. I always blame her.
DesertRatt
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I think in the future, if anyone asks how an item sounds, I'm going to go with, "It puts me in a dream state."
DesertRatt
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Bob Newhart on 'ludes?
DesertRatt
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Random thought---
Me dear old Dad (RIP) was shocked when we moved to SoCal in 1961 to see so many houses mounted on sticks hanging over seaside cliffs all over SoCal. "Are these people NUTS? Who the hell would do that? They're all going to fall down someday." Ok, he was off by 65 years, but I guess it's ok to be right, even if it is long after being dead (1972).
Me dear old Dad (RIP) was shocked when we moved to SoCal in 1961 to see so many houses mounted on sticks hanging over seaside cliffs all over SoCal. "Are these people NUTS? Who the hell would do that? They're all going to fall down someday." Ok, he was off by 65 years, but I guess it's ok to be right, even if it is long after being dead (1972).
