[Elgrindio]

Has anybody produced online samples that illustrate different audio qualities? On this forum people use a lot of terms to describe the sounds they hear, and how one piece of equipment compares to another (tight/muddy bass, warm/cool, soundstage...). For someone who is still learning, it's difficult to visualize (audiolize???) these qualities. It would be great if someone could produce a website with samples that are intentionally modified to mimic these differences. I know that it would still depend on the equipment you are using to listen to the samples, but extreme examples should be noticeable on modest equipment, right?

For example, this page on npr music gives samples of different bitrates, so you can put your hearing and equipment to the test: http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

 

[hqssui]

Have you seen this - https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/describing-sound-a-glossary.220770/ . It helped me a lot when I started here.

 

[bigshot]

Most of the words used to describe sound in audiophile forums are glittering generalities. There are ways of describing sound clearly, but they involve specific aspects of sound- frequency response, dynamics, distortion, etc. Better the learn how sound reproduction works and talk about that than to think up flowery poetry that conveys how you feel, not how it sounds.