Warm sound, cold sound... whats it to you?

[Geoffcin]

So, it is possible to make a speaker warm by adding a 1 or 2 dB very broad bump centered around 200 Hz . This is distinctly different from making a speaker warm by rolling off the highs. Words like warm unfortunately have somewhat different definitions to different people.

People keep commenting that 3db is the smallest noticable change in performance, but to me 3db sounds like a nautical mile. Just a 2db bump in the midbass stands out to me bigtime. A 3db shelving of the treble sounds like a blanket over the tweeter! Possibly why I liked the Totem Mani-2 so much. The thing sounded dead flat across a good portion of the spectrum.