This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. i'd guess that 'musical' just means that the 'phone colours the sonic spectrum to the listener's liking.. You guys with the links are either being lame or you don't know the answers either.

emphasised bass and recessed treble with neutral mids is what I have in my mind right now, K1000, DT880, K501, K401, SR80, old style DT440 (600 ohms). ??? great link, thanks! Compare "light. Here are some adjectives for ~term~: . Here's the list of words that can be used to describe another word: As you've probably noticed, adjectives for "term" are listed above. (inspired by the one-word headphone review thread. Use "descriptive words" a lot? :). Just like wine, I love high quality audio, but have never bothered to learn the language to describe it. Below is a list of describing words for another word. While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Also, to me it sometimes means the very *movement* of air, as when you hear (especially with headphones) a singer take a breath. The 2.5 and 3.5 mm jacks have been used on cellphones and smartphones, while stereo and home theater equipment generally have a 6.3 mm socket. On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). Open. Describing Words.

The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. You must log in or register to reply here. To learn more, see the privacy policy. As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.

Ideally, to sound identical to the original music. It means that (particularly if, say, you are listening to a string quartet), you can hear (or sense, I guess) the "space" between the instruments. JavaScript is disabled. Hopefully the above generated list of words to describe term suits your needs. Loading you some adjectives... Won't be much longer! May one day invent Bose-cancelling headphones. This confuses the engine and so you might not get many adjectives describing it. So if you're not getting ideal results, check that your search term, "term" isn't confusing the engine in this manner. Aggressive - Forward and bright sonic character. For fun, I am going to use these terms to better state my opinion of the K701 (my favorite headphone out of what I have heard so far). Mostly, they are not my original works. The guy wanted to get a discussion going =^/, [size=1em]MagusG420 (4:48:17 PM): people that don't like grados have bad ears[/size]. to add: mid/upper bass emphasis for punch. NS500V -> Tara Labs Axiom -> MG Head OTL MKII (GE 12AX7 - Sovtek 6BQ5) -> HD600, I was going to post the link but I thought it'd take the fun out of the thead. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. Find more ways to say headphone, along with related words, antonyms and example phrases at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. X-FI Elite Pro -> Stello DA100 -> Stello HP100 -> Hifiman HE-5 or HE-500. The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. i find that even when the FR is V shaped, headphones won't sound too fatiguing or grating unless there's a peak somewhere. While I have created this original list, the terms & descriptions have been published elsewhere. Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl".

http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?50:1, http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?50, dark A warm, mellow, excessively rich quality in reproduced sound. You can get the definitions of these ~term~ adjectives by clicking on them.

the treble above that can vary, and crappy phones will have peaky, uneven treble response that grates at your ears. Because if you don't, you'll just get people saying, "hey, you're missing, Now I shall hope everyone uses the term in the same way you do. Headphones synonyms. Can you describe these Headphone Adjectives?

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Often times when I read reviews on headphones or read posts in this forum I have a little trouble comprehending what the review is trying to say about the cans. FAQ: rec.audio. © 2001-2020 Head-Fi.org. at the end of your searchl. I may look into fixing this in the future. Or a trumpeter, for that matter. JavaScript is disabled.
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Please note that Describing Words uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies. You must log in or register to reply here. Analytical – A term used to describe a product that produces a high level of detail in reference to the music being played back. Now that I've found myself here at Head Fi, reading what everyone has to say, I have become much more eager to learn the language. "airy" is one of my favorites. The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). Top synonyms for headphones (other words for headphones) are headphone, earphones and headset. Balance – Usually the tuning of the earphone. This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. Another word for headphone. You can jump right to this page by putting a "!"

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For example, the word "blue" can be an noun and an adjective. In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org. Note also that if there aren't many term adjectives, or if there are none at all, it could be that your search term has an abiguous part-of-speech.

Airy – Describes the space and openness of the product usually associated with open back headphones and live sounding music. Good stuff....and fun! The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns. The audible effect of a frequency response which is clockwise-tilted across the entire range, so that output diminishes with increasing frequency. The following list is a compilation of terms commonly used by Audio buffs to describe sound and sound equipment.

* Systems 2/99 (part 2 of 13), Description of Sound - The Audiophile Way - SGHeadphones, Stereophile: Sounds Like? I think it would be good to add them. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. If you're getting strange results, it may be that your query isn't quite in the right format. I was kinda hoping I used it correctly! This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here). Still is kind of ambiguous though- I don't know what the sound range between 3kHz and 7kHz sounds like- so when they say that that portion is exaggerated, it still is pretty confusing. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. An Audio Glossary, Recording Institute Of Detroit Audio RecordingTerms Glossary, HOTRODDING the X-Fi: A Layman's Guide to sonic bliss, FS: Canare 4S11 Pair of Speaker Cables 2 m. © 2001-2020 Head-Fi.org. headphone jack definition: The analog socket used to plug in a headset, earphones or headphones. 200-500Hz is attenuated. Audiophile Words Glossary of Terms to describe sound. Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project. Airy - Spacious.

upper mid/lower treble 1k-2.5k emphasized to make the sound "up in your face".

The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms).

Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books! That's kinda why I like the wordy responses. You might also be wondering: What type of word is ~term~? this is great. For those interested in common terms here are two other lists: This will be immensely useful to me, thanks for posting this thread.

For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. The search box should be a simple word or phrase, like "tiger" or "blue eyes". While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. You might also like some words related to ~term~ (and find more here). (New and updated entries are highlighted in RED until the next update) Accurate - The music is unaltered by the recording or playback equipment. it'll be so useful to the newbies around here.

This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. A search for words to describe "people who have blue eyes" will likely return zero results.

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there's also all these terms like "headstage" and "3-blob soundstage" etc.