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What Color is your system

By virtue of the laws of physic no sound can be percieved as unaltered from its way from the vocalist musician or other sound to mastering enginneering circuit and voicing manipulation. to the duplcation process electronic and physical variation to you feeding it through an assembly of electronics presumably chosen to suit your favorite voicing .
Thus no earthbound system no matter how much one wants to believe is absolutely pure nor purely perfect am immaculate not touched.
Thee artfacts of reproduced music I call color.
Please no my system is silver colored etc sophomoric jokes.
I like my sound rich and full but not rolled off the opposte is my preference . Mine is the proverbial Big Tone preference. I like it a little bumped up in mids and upper bass but be very well defined at the any point. I admit like it rich and warm but never blurry fuzzy or unclear I simpoly the very British recessed politeness unbearable with regard to bass. My treble is very airy and transparent very dimensional great imagery.
As a color I would say medium warm but clean.
Whats do you think your system and preferences are for variation from the truly impossible perfect total neutral many seem to think is the "right answer" no matter how difficult it is to listen to orclaim aspire to .
Euphonic is a fine thing and by no means a vulgar curse.
So How about you?. What do you like.
An actual color designation BTW might be a yellow orange in my imagination of the spectrum with red representing warmth in the extreme. Artic ocean blue for cool coloration in that extreme starkness speed no real timbral decay not rich toned a pure precise simple note with no added fat .
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audiofeil
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blindjim
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Hi Doug.... so, like what else is there to do on a weekend?

Fun is a part of things too, and way too often I can and do lose perspective regarding that 'fun' thingy.

Hopefully, not every line of every thread here has to be pertinent and educational, with respect to system building, or system synergy composition.

Wether or not someone can or does perceive a color or overtone when listening to music makes me think either someone isn't playing with a full deck, or someone has been spray painting for a while, in an unventelated space... maybe.

it could be valid I suppose too.

I've heard stranger things. Like what color is lightening splitting a tree down it's middle? Or when it hits a light pole? Or a duck?

The first one was mostly orangey whitish... the second strike was hugely green & white... The third ... well there were too many feathers to tell.

In all 3 instances, I was listening to music too. The Oak tree event was at a local picnic.

the light pole incident occurred as I was getting off my scooter at a Holiday Inn in Lake Charles, LA. while seeking shelter from an enormous upstart downpour. It hit an area light pole, about fifteen ft. away from me as I pulled the bike under the lobby entrance awning.

The bad luck bird deal was while fishing on my lake some years ago. It was certainly suprising to me, and surely it came as quite a shock to the bird, but the gator (s) did not seem to mind.

Color, in music I suspect then, is contingent upon more than just components, musical genre, and the setting itself.
mechans OP
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I spent nearly the entire question I posed explaing that I am convinced that recording music and your chosen playback system changes the initial sound at the time it was produced. In almost any description of audio -that is the recording or the gear used in playback the term colored is understood. It is the inevitable impact of all the parts alone and together that you percieve you find and I hope like that your system does resulting in your preferred style,voice or sound you use to desrcribe your sound to be.
BTW I MEANT ONLY if I HAD TO assign an ACTUAL color I would use this color to describe what I think warm is.

By no means did I expect these concrete answers about the color that a system congers in your inner thoughts if any.
To be clear I am talking about colored in the manner seen everyday in these forums. .
I like the mind study type explanations and some cute jokes but I hoped you would advocate for a voicing tendency such as how I desribed my preferences. Thanks for your interest in any event.
I learned that one member would describe their system as being one that would amputate your head. That is a sytem I couldn't live with. However I doubt it is fatuiging.
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abucktwoeighty
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There was a documentary on television that was about a few people who have the ability to see colors that change with different tones, frequencies, sounds. The problem is that some are beautiful, mellow, and others are very uncomfortable. They cannot turn it off, it's always there. They live life seeing constant changing colors. What a trip! I wonder what color they would see listening to hard rock versus a violin solo. Or a drum solo versus someone humming a pleasant melody. Tubes versus solid state.
honest1
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Oops, sorry about that, Mech. But it sure has been an interesting thread...
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