how do you gauge and judge "timing"?

Test track, not meant to be a soul carresser.

But, i bet your apogee and tubes crap flailed and fumbled with all that fast deep bass.

So, you may go back to Roger Waters moaning away at 50 db about him being 'comfortably numb' comfortably....claiming to be listening for PRAT,  pretending to be all PRATty n all...

@deep_333  that's not good music.

It can be found in any obscure genre or whatever, if you looked around....not just Vaughn because the recording was good or something....The recordings don’t need to be be all that great for ya to feel the PRAT.

Here’s something from a African Jimi Hendrix.....He’s kinda PRATty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ActhAx-374o

Or here’s something from a British/Turkish youngin indie rocker....She’s kinda PRATty...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJejr2kMbIM

Or here’s satriani being all PRATty without singing a word...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=a7_2Dm4QCCs&si=2jRvRgIZqfxCB3c2

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jlF7GgY6ATM&si=HTYDMhcOOLTDbM7l

Or here’s even good ol’ AC/DC becoming a li’l PRATty...

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OltvJu0pwRc&si=NPuK7eLhll8KLO3T

"It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing."

It’s when the musicians are talking back and forth to each other and sometimes playing a little catch up to some new development that the music starts to sound ingratiatingly real. Stevie Ray Vaughn is my favorite PRATTY player because he was so adept at swinging, stretching and nipping. Hendrix comes to mind as well. Jascha Heifetz and Artur Rubenstein could swing like crazy. When Garcia and Grisman were playing together there was always suspense. When Willy went out on a limb with Trigger and then found a way back home when all appeared to be lost - that made the audience and band listen real hard. It makes for a more suspenseful and slightly dangerous performance - what a lot of us live for in trying to flesh out a life.

timing piping  , audiophile bul-----et

Meridian marketed their DSP 8000 with timing for mainly the bass as the company's designer states something like in order for bass notes to reach the listeners ears at the same time as the higher fq's the drivers would need 20 ft behind the other. The feature has an on and off switch and tbh I can't really hear a difference.  I've heard a school marching band with their timing off and it's one of those things one really tends to notice.

Stereophile definition:

timing The apparent instrumental ensemble (synchronism) of a performance, which is affected by system speed. See "articulation," "rhythm," "pace."