How you rate your speaker :use these terms
Here is a list of standard terms that have evolved from years of loudspeaker listening tests in conducted at Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) acoustics lab. I’ve taken the list from forms originally compiled by Dr. Floyd Toole during his long tenure at the NRC Acoustics Division for use in subjective double-blind listening tests, as well as additions from my own notes during those tests and those of other long-time reviewers, including Ian G. Masters. The forms and adjectives we used were to solve this very problem, because sometimes reviewers can become almost poetic in their descriptions of loudspeaker sound, as if the speaker were a musical instrument in and of itself! Here are some common terms to describe loudspeaker sound. " Forward " indicates that vocals, male and female, tend to be very present, almost as if the singer were standing in front of the plain of the speakers. It can be a negative term, too--if singers sound too close up it may mean the midrange is...