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I considered whether it might be a perceptually relative thing, e.g. reducing the 1.8 kHz peak by too much made the boominess more noticeable.

Thanks @amirm . Just a point about he EQ: you mention that Band 1 reduces boominess when it is a dip at 1.8 kHz. Typo?

Pierre Schaeffer also had a problem with "timbre" (note the similarity to Bregman's "wastepaper basket" in the metaphor of the test tube residue): From Michel Chion's Guide to [Schaeffer's] Sound Objects...

Yes, Bregman points out that this "plus other stuff" is difficult to reduce to a fixed set of parameters, so timbre might best be considered a conceptual container (or "wastepaper basket") for a varying collection of acoustic attributes. For example, some sounds might be considered to be made up...

From Bregman's Auditory Scene Analysis (p.92 ->):

Here is a short summary on research into "timbre spaces" -- attempting to ascribe acoustic descriptors to timbre perception. It's primarily focused on musical instrument acoustics and there are some papers cited in the references which may be useful...

I was taught "partials" as a general term -- they can be harmonic or inharmonic and includes the fundamental.

But another alternative is doing binaural mixes using Ambisonics with no licensing fees and delivery via standard 2-channel formats and no special playback required, so even Spotify qualifies, though personally I would prefer to offer them exclusively on Bandcamp.

We recently looked at installing an acoustic curtain in a room at work, but the cost-performance was not great. So we installed this Primacoustic kit after determining where the specular reflections were for the listening position...

Perhaps, but just because a service offers surround doesn't mean subscribers are listening that way by default or even regularly. There's a certain amount of spin and little quantifiable evidence in this statement from Apple: "Apple says more than 90% of subscribers have tried listening to a...

Is that just paid subscribers? I had heard a total of 600 million active subscribers (paid+ad-supported). I think its large market share still points to a minority interest in surround music listening. We would have to compare that to the number of subscribers on Apple, Amazon, Tidal and...

Thanks, I think that you're right. It's a bit like Quicktime vs MP4 in that Apple have their own vision and subsequent soft/hardware implementations that fit with their walled garden philosophy. So, let's see if I have this right. The music streaming platforms that have Dolby Atmos content seem...

Yes, that was what I was trying to say: it's a codec issue on Apple's end. But this is an issue precisely because so much of the listening is probably on headphones. EDIT: Ah, it seems that Apple Music does have some binauralisation technology in its Spatial Audio renderer, but I wonder if it...

It would be interesting to know the stats on consumption of the Spatial Audio versions of that 80% and what sort of systems they were played on. Home cinema, headphones, soundbars, in-car, 2-channel stereo...

Darko's interview with Steven Wilson, which is quoted in that headphonesty article, is a good watch to hear Wilson's opinions on what works and what doesn't for Atmos mixing. He mentions that prog works well because of its layered sound while something like The Rolling Stones would simply fall...

Yes, you're right, Derek, I think it is you rather than Nigel that contributes to that pearl of wisdom!

Since we're having a spiritual minimalism love/hate fest, here's my pick:

Such a fine line between banal and sublime, I suppose (apologies to David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel).

Indeed, it's about the formants/harmonic content of a sound source. Surely then, this is (hopefully) not a quality of the transducer itself, unless the "oil-can" resonance of metal tweeters or woofer cone break-up counts. But we can ask how the transducer reproduces timbre (FR) without adding...

What quantifiable properties of transducers would be described as "texture" and "timbre"? According to the ASA (via Wikipedia): Could we determine how well a transducer handles these qualities of sound from FR + THD measurements?