PRaT,
Save the fairy tails for the toddlers.
Save the fairy tails for the toddlers.
I have a theory .. that gear with prat chops off note decay thus giving rise to a staccato effect leading to a perception of "fastness"
I can tell you the relative pace of music has changed as I have changed gear .. some of it just didn't portray the music as snappy as I remembered..or vice versa
Save the fairytales for the FBI..PRaT,
Save the fairy tails for the toddlers.
I quite agree, I am at a loss to understand how electronics could be included, mind you the Audio Note SET amp and filterless DAC Martin reviewed added very substantial amounts of distortion.Fair point, and even a rational one, relative to vinyl. Same can be said of transducers. But one would have thought PRaT would only be applied to transducers, and yet we hear it applied to amps and DACs.
My read of the modern use of the term is "when everything falls in place" and in essence sounds perfect in the eyes (errr, ears) of the listener.
I think it is a pretty term. And sad that as objectivists we don't have cool term like it. I blamed it all on Thomas as he should have come up with one by now. Bollocks doesn't count because it is not original!
I come up with plenty original words , or words spelt in a original way at leastMy read of the modern use of the term is "when everything falls in place" and in essence sounds perfect in the eyes (errr, ears) of the listener.
I think it is a pretty term. And sad that as objectivists we don't have cool term like it. I blamed it all on Thomas as he should have come up with one by now. Bollocks doesn't count because it is not original!
"Hi-fi".And sad that as objectivists we don't have cool term like it.
Yes, "good PRaT" simply means that the system is competent - nothing more than that. I have come across systems which subjectively feel like they're dragging the beat; one registers that the musicians are just going through the motions, and are ready to head to bed ... it's how our hearing is reacting to a type of distortion in the replay; fix that distortion and the sound "springs back to life".My read of the modern use of the term is "when everything falls in place" and in essence sounds perfect in the eyes (errr, ears) of the listener.
I think it is a pretty term. And sad that as objectivists we don't have cool term like it. I blamed it all on Thomas as he should have come up with one by now. Bollocks doesn't count because it is not original!
Yes, "good PRaT" simply means that the system is competent - nothing more than that. I have come across systems which subjectively feel like they're dragging the beat; one registers that the musicians are just going through the motions, and are ready to head to bed ... it's how our hearing is reacting to a type of distortion in the replay; fix that distortion and the sound "springs back to life".
As per thomas, its bollocks. Its totally meaningless as a description.
It may be describing some aspect of the sound, but I have no idea what. It certainly has nothing to do with pace, rhythm or timing.
To use the term would however make you a prat.
Not specifically as something I would call PRaT - there would be some type of distortion that would be measurable, if you fed the system an appropriate stimulus signal - but what the right signal would be I don't know. I could say I have almost never experienced "poor PRaT" in a setup I was sorting out - the key type of distortion artifact was got rid of very quickly, automatically, by the improving of various areas that I normally worry about.So, in your mind, PRaT is real....but is it measurable or unmeasurable?