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what is the meaning of this???

ok. Maybe I'm just dense. Maybe it's just another piece of ambiguous audiphile jargon. Perhaps it's a new term that Audiophile Newbies are using...I just don't know anymore.

What is meant by the term 'fleshed-out'. As in, the sound was very fleshed-out. The speakers/ amp/ DAC or whatever seemed to make the sound more 'fleshed out'.

I have read this several times on Audiogon, but I still, to date, don't have a definite idea of what this means. (I do have an idea of what it means, but I'd like to get some others' definitions first).

thanks,

Steve
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hifiho
50 posts
 
"Fleshed out" is a term used by a hunter (or trapper), when the skin and fat are removed from a carcass. In this instance, I would expect it to be used in reference to "getting to the meat". The meat being the music, as opposed to hearing the electronics.

But what do I know?
$0.02 from Alaska
David.
hifiho
50 posts
 
That should have read "skin and fur". You need the fat for flavor...
dl
hankcan
5 posts
 
I havealways believed fleshed out to refer to the ability to hear all of what is going on in the music, instruments, rhythyms, timbres, etc not just the skeleton. As the total level of accurate information recovered increases, the music reproduction becomes more fleshed out and closer to the real thing.
cdc
1,412 posts
 
Not to be graphic, but flesh as in human flesh would mean skin color. So I would guess all the "colors" would be in place. Harmonics, detail, more natural flesh, or more "lifelike" (flesh) presentation.
brucegel
148 posts
 
And you all thought speaker differences(2way,3way,planars,)were mind boggling...now we throw opinions of what audio phraseologies mean..oooh weee.
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