Timing and Music

[Feanor]

I just installed my upgraded speakers into my system this afternoon and whilst listening to the music, it hit me that whilst I love its refinement, transparency, soundstaging and well defined bass, the thing I like most about the system is its excellent timing. Does anybody else feel strongly about timing? cheers.

Would you explain? Is it part of "PRaT", (Pace, Rhythm, and Timing)? I really don't know what these mean as it pertains to sound reproduction. They see to be terms relating to the playing of music, not its reproduction.

Use of the above terminology seemed at one time to be mainly in the British press, but I do think it's starting to creep into North American usage. A good thing or a bad thing?