What exactly is textural density??

I happen to have a PHD in Textual Density. My dissertation was on the Rosetta Stone.

I just begin to read your dissertation.... Congratulations!

https://www.amazon.com/Timbre-Acoustics-Perception-Cognition-Springer-ebook/dp/B07RMT74YN

More than a simple wise post indeed!

Thanks...

I don’t think this is about which voice or instrument has, in real life, more or less textural (tonal) density than another......
the point of quantifying or qualifying tonal density is to determine whether the reproduced sound does justice to the timbre of the sound being reproduced; whatever that might be.

Right to the point!....

Tonal and timbre density and his texture to the perceiving ears is the most important perceived fact to evaluate our own system and any system.,...There are others but without this one any system is more trash than audio.... The unbeknownst fact to most is that implementing  controls of the working dimensions of the audio system is on par with a good electronic design choice to begin with.....

This is precisely what is called "instrument timbre", each instrument playing the same note giving his own specific "textural density"....

Instrument timbre perception is  one of the most important factor to analyse to reveal the accuracy of an audio system....    

I forgot to say that some source can give a better "textural density" impressions  than some other source for sure...But in some room better also than in some other room....In some electrical house grid better than in some less controlled other one, then context is a factor very important not only the specific  electronic design.... But reviewers must sells what is it there  to sell .... They dont sell their room, nor their electrical grid....  
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The perception of "textural density" is an acoustical phenomenon and a musical one first, not an electronical design one....

it is also sometimes easy to put aside dead trees to discover living one .....

Textural density is a concept in music and in acoustic....It does not takes hours of brain power to figure it out....

What else? It is not an assembly of words by chance....

Even if a reviewer use it like an accidental coining of words, which i dont know, dont deprive it of his meaning....

You simply have chosen the wrong set of words to criticize the reviewer, thinking that these 2 words in his mouth means nothing, but they means something in any mouth.... Sorry.... 😁

These words make sense, but i dont know if the reviewer use them accurately and honestly....

i am sorry, I am new to the high end audio world. I read this sentence and could not understand any of it. Can you help?

I forget that many of your thread are only bait for discussion in a sarcastic way sometimes....I apologize for being slow brain...

I am too direct person to be swift zig- zaguing

Anyway your thread are interesting.....

You are right i think about the musical origin....

In acoustic concept speaking about "Timbre",  it is the difference between pure tone/noise and the spectral envelope and the time envelope in an instrument playing a note and the particular  way this instrument body vibrations  will  give the note in an acoustical context like a room, but it is my own interpretation only....



The fact that a reviewer use this concept meaningfully or not,for other motives, dont deprive it of his deep possible meanings...

Music might have textural density but not speakers

Bingo! that was my point about "timbre" which is an acoustical phenomenon not and electronic one mainly.... But electronic design can help for sure....

Sometimes "Words" are the pallet of wisdom and understanding.
Other times they are just that, "WORDS".

You are wise.... that is my point precisely....

But the fact that some words are used in a review dont means that these words dont make sense.... They did.... The review perhaps dont make sense, i dont know....

The OP wanted an understanding of these words.... I give what i think what "texture density" could mean acoustically.... But perhaps his motives were other than my simple supposition in creating the thread....i am myself too simple mind to figure it out.... 

Anyway any audio thread can be interesting....

i will summarize my post in 4 words:

Vibraphone decays never lied.....





Then bash the review.... Not  the 2 words that perfectly make sense.... 😁

Reviews are there to sell...

It is a bit easy to mock "metaphor" about product...

I will not go there, i dont push doors that are already opened... 😁


But speakin of" textural density" CAN and COULD make sense... It is not necessarily a metaphor for selling a product but a way to convey a complex acoustical and musical concept in 2 simple words:


See points 2 and 3 and 4 in particular in this 5 characteristics of " timbre" from wiki :

1. Range between tonal and noiselike character
2. Spectral envelope
3. Time envelope in terms of rise, duration, and decay (ADSR, which stands for "attack, decay, sustain, release")
4. Changes both of spectral envelope (formant-glide) and fundamental frequency (micro-intonation)
5. Prefix, or onset of a sound, quite dissimilar to the ensuing lasting vibration

Figure it by yourself if the reviewer is genuine or not , pro or not, i dont know....I just wanted to defend his choice of words.... Nothing else.....By the way the mathematical modeling of these 5 factors are a precise mathematical acoustic problem, about with i have a book of 700 hundred pages....

Then sometimes using 2 words is more than poetry....But sometimes it is a sales pitch.... Decide yourself....