You can use the term PRAT any way you want. Or it can be a criterion by which to judge or describe vinyl reproduction. Would be my response.
I believe I experienced great PRAT for the first time
Pace, Rhythm and Timing - I've often heard about it, mainly in the context of certain turntables, but I don't think I've really experienced it in a highly satisfactory way until today when I mounted my new Soundsmith Hyperion, an upgrade from my Sussorro. Halfway through side two of Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, it suddenly dawned on me that there was more going on than improvements in clarity, detail, neutrality, bass punch and other rather specific traits that I've until this point used to refer to what I'm hearing. For the first time in the 30 years I've had this album, I was struck by a sense of flow, ease, relaxation, and my feet were tapping! Yes, this must be it. I connected with the music at a higher level just now, something new to me. Get all the details correct, and the PRAT appears in front of you. So, this was nothing to do with the fact that my turntable runs at the correct speed with low W/F, as it was performing well at that before. I had assumed that's what PRAT meant. Perhaps it means that too, in a speed stability sense.
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PRAT may be the most obscure audio terms I can think of. I relate it to music and performance far more than to system. Both pace and rhythm are generated by musician, not system. Timing even more obscure, this has most meaning to me in relation to clocking with digital.
I think descriptors such as micro and macro dynamics, transients, attack and decay are far more precise terms. |
@mijostyn + 1 - Great point; I've never understood it when somebody says a great system will get their foot tapping. Their foot wouldn't tap to the music on a lesser system? Hell, when I was a teenager, never took more than a handheld 1960's transistor radio to get my foot tapping and head bopping as long as the music elicited that! |
OP As you can see, it isn’t that easy to learn to detect. I normally refer to it as rhythm and pace. That is the terminology used by Stereophile.
Here is an article from 1992 on the subject.
https://www.stereophile.com/reference/23/index.html
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