Why do we use "smooth" as a description for speakers?

[Disco-Pete]

Are those clues enough for me to figure it out? Cuz if they are, I'm on it!

 

[Soldermizer]

Back in the 1980s, AAFES (sort of a department store for U.S. Military) had a cartoon series, a stereo buyer's guide. While discussing how to maintain a turntable, it said approximately: "Change your phonograph stylus every 500 hours*" and the footnote said "change it every 250 hours if you listen to Black Sabbath records." Anyway, for those unfamiliar, old Sabbath will give you a good example of NOT-smooth

 

[ScottG]

Smooth, to me, is Louis Armstrong.

Combine him with 007 James Bond and our own National Treasure Diana Rigg, and you have the epitome of SMOOTH.

YouTube

The best Bond movie, IMO. Bit of a tearjerker.

-oh god, best bond movie?


Whenever I see Diana Rigg I instantly think of the character Moiraine Damodred from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time trilogy: the quintessential Aes Sedai. (..probably because of Sweet's cover art for Eye of the World.)

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..as to "smooth" it's usually a tweeter characteristic, a bit over-damped on the edge-surround and generally along with more damping on the diaphragm itself.

Dynaudio Esotars (1st gen.) epitomize "smooth".

Objectively it's a matter of linearity with respect to oscillation (.."spikey" or "hash" behavior - with more "smooth" having less "hash".) This is something that can be seen with very little or no smoothing applied to the graphical display of linearity.

 

[AllenB]

our own National Treasure Diana Rigg,

..and our George Lazenby.

 

[Disco-Pete]

As in for·mid·a·ble vs for·mid·a·ble?

When I looked up 'middle dot' I found out it's actually called a middle dot, when it's not being called an 'interpunct'.

Boy, those Brits are just too lazy to talk propally, ay.

 

[AllenB]

Lol. I just found a link with sound bites.

 

[diyiggy]

Smooth, to me, is Louis Armstrong.

Combine him with 007 James Bond and our own National Treasure Diana Rigg, and you have the epitome of SMOOTH.

YouTube

The best Bond movie, IMO. Bit of a tearjerker.

Yeah, Diana Rigg is still for one of the most attractive woman according my tastes when I saw her in the Avengers more than 40 years ago...

Louis Armstrong is a paradox alike Sinatra but much more. Smoothnes as you point out can be refered to a woman quality. Armstrong is at the same time grainy, rocky but smooth in his voice, at the same time very rock 'n roll with his trumpett... Chet Baker comes in mind about voice smoothness.
Guiness is smooth to me while it's not an acurate word for this bubbles cold cofee at room temperature smoothness. Not strange we have pain with this word and audio.

Edit, after a long 10 seconds introspect, the most I'm able to, Casino Royale 1967 movie, and Moonrocker...Moonrawker, sorry Moonraker 1979 movie, are the best Bonds to my eyes, they have something special, funny, light, while classy and looks aesthetic as well. They have something comon imho.

 

[puppet]

Thomas/Carlos = Smooth

 

[diyiggy]

Especialmente aora indeed...

 

[system7]

..and our George Lazenby.

AllenB, you amaze me!

I never knew George Lazenby came from OZ!

At the age of 29, he was the youngest actor to have portrayed Bond, the only Bond actor to receive a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor, and the only non-European actor to take on the role in the official Bond series.

TBH, he was a bit of a mug to turn down a second and third Bond film. Along with a bit of Cash.

Whatever was he thinking of?

Ah, well. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was a blast.

James Bond is still a National Treasure: YouTube

Too smooth for words.

 

[Flaxxer]

It seems to me that many polyprop mid/woofers give a smooth sound, but at the expense of detail.

This raises the whole issue of damping and trying to get the resulting waveforms to be as near the I/P as possible; underdamp and superimpose colorations appear on the O/P, overdamp and remove them but also remove genuine spikes form the original waveform.

Ah Ha! Here is a morsel of information that means something to the original subject matter. Duly noted to research this more.

 

[ScottG]

Hello!

..as to "smooth" it's usually a tweeter characteristic, a bit over-damped on the edge-surround and generally along with more damping on the diaphragm itself.

Dynaudio Esotars (1st gen.) epitomize "smooth".

Objectively it's a matter of linearity with respect to oscillation (.."spikey" or "hash" behavior - with more "smooth" having less "hash".) This is something that can be seen with very little or no smoothing applied to the graphical display of linearity.