SatCure Audiophile Adjectives

 

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  • The valves do have some remoteness.
  • The immediacy and presence
  • The highs are a bit sweeter
  • The lows are incredibly lush and defined
  • The midrange has lost most of its focus
  • Hateful tizzyness in the top end.
  • ... wire sounds "sweeter" but perhaps "sloppier" than...
  • There was an absence of a sweet midrange colouration
  • Transients increased at the expense of midrange texture and air.
  • Lovely, spacious, coherent music.
  • ..give you a much larger sonic picture, but less focus and low-level subtlety.
  • The deep fundamentals leave you gasping for breath.
  • Telefunkens are very rolled off in the highs.
  • Lots of air around instruments
  • Amazing sonic character
  • ..will impart a "warm" sound to the system
  • A lack of "atmosphere" and "quietness"
  • Great tube harmonic depth and slam.
  • Quick, smooth, dynamic, musical, not fatiguing on highs and crescendos
  • ... tends to thicken up instruments and voices quite a bit
  • ... got enough solid state zing and lots of palpability, presence, air ..
  • ... gave a nice sense of space around the individual instruments
  • ... to get more atmosphere and "quietness" around instruments
  • A little less musical down low and up high.
  • An occasional honk on a horn during arias
  • Russian tubes are pretty neutral.
  • A bit of sibilance in them
  • ...wire of exceptional musicality.
  • The lack of multiple crystals should prevent inter-crystal diode effects.
  • The former sounds better in the midrange, the latter sounds "muffled" overall
  • The ear is oblivious to phase shifts above 20K.
  • Valves and transistors possessing different sonic signatures....
  • Smoother more natural sound
  • More realistic harmonics
  • ... with the hand-wound capacitors imparting an unbelievable smoothness
  • Like a monkey hitting a dustbin lid with a dog's bone..
  • Devoid of the hardness which afflicts most transistorised amps
  • Uneven tonal balance
  • Bass is slightly loose and emphasised
  • Bright and pure treble
  • Upper registers were cleaner and less fizzy
  • ... imparting a new plumminess to the sound
  • Bass was faster and meatier
  • ..gaining in speed and impact
  • Image precision and soundstaging of the warehouse variety
  • Tizzyness in the top end
  • These cables have a pinched sound that goes away over time
  • The whole experience can become quite hollographic
  • The ears need time to adjust to any system or setup
  • A whiteness during intertransient silences enthusiasts

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