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Frankly I don’t know why you’d come around here if you weren’t a pretty solid obectivist. There’s not much in the way of flowery language when describing equipment among the faithful . Admittedly, I am a reformed subjectivist, probably the worst kind. I find myself cringing at the mere mention of terms like “soundstage”, “weight“ and “airy”.
Ha! I've seen that affliction before
We are all at our own point in our journey and in no way would I want to argue you "shouldn't" cringe at this point at subjective descriptions of sound. That's a psychological reaction one either carries on with or doesn't.
But I'd say that on a practical level it does seem very odd to me. It seems essentially a reaction against subjective description of experience....but only in the case of describing sound (in particular, audio systems). Do you cringe just as much when people describe a sunset as "beautiful?" or give any number of descriptions about music, or movies, or food, or any other experience from the senses? Where do you draw the line against using words to describe subjective experience (and all our experience is subjective)?
Again...I understand the psychological reaction, but in a more practical, rational view, does it make sense to you?
As I've mentioned many times before, my job working in pro sound for movies would be impossible if we were to reject the worth of subjective description and communication about "how things sound." So I often find this allergy around here pretty weird and sort of insular.