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

[Geoffcin]

Warm to me is a bit veiled and a bloomey bass -- cold is grainy or harsh and fatguing treble and or lacks decay. Neither is good but the former I'd take over the latter if push came to shove simply because ti doesn;t give me a puounding headache after two tracks.

According to your definitions a speaker can be both warm and cold!

[RGA]

According to your definitions a speaker can be both warm and cold!

Yeah that's why I try not to use the terms -- because they're silly -- plenty of Klipsch speakers are described as bright and or cold -- yet they ALSO have the midbass humps other people in this thread say is a criterian for warm. Still SOME of these speakers that exhibit BOTH traits still come out to me as cold in that they're bright...Thus the TRUMP factor ios the harsh/bright sound.

Of Course Geoffcin if you've never heard a speaker with a big mid bass bloom and also had a piercing treble then I can't help you (see many a horn). A warm only speaker won't have the treble annoyance which is why I stated I could live with it over the other.

The same stupid adjectives of polite and Agressive I've used myself from time to time...Uggh -- bunch of drivel magazine writers concocted.