[patanin1st]

Hi everyone,
 
I'll begin with apologizing for posting this, but I am very new to this audiophile forum. I have been reading a few threads and all, but keep encountering this vocabulary of "timbre". May anyone kindly describe what it means in audiophile-sense when referring to an earphone's timbre (I was reading mostly IEM posts btw). Thank you very much in advance.

 

[ElcomeSoft]

http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/describing-sound-glossary-220770/
 
The Head-Fi glossary of sound terms aka. The Bible

 

[kmhaynes]

I think of "timbre" as the ability to portray accurate tone of an instrument, usually an acoustic instrument:  does that sound like a saxophone (even tho' different sax's have their own distinguishing tone), or a cello?  Or does it sound nasally or unnatural?

 

[patanin1st]

Thanks a lot guys, got a much better idea of what it means now

 
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http://www.head-fi.org/forums/f4/describing-sound-glossary-220770/
 
The Head-Fi glossary of sound terms aka. The Bible

 


Quote:

I think of "timbre" as the ability to portray accurate tone of an instrument, usually an acoustic instrument:  does that sound like a saxophone (even tho' different sax's have their own distinguishing tone), or a cello?  Or does it sound nasally or unnatural?