Rappers.

jude knows what hes talkin bout most of the time… seems like a confusion of marketing and audio signature.

(dr.dre+monster… balanced sound? $349? active noise cancelling? who exactly are they marketing this to?)

So the crisp (English potato chip) really is superiorally-named then: “clean-cut, crinkled, wrinkled, firm curls”

Surely these words would also be used to describe higher-frequency characteristics? I don’t understand how these definitions of crisp prove my point wrong?

Obviously the majority of describing music/sound is subjective, we can make clear distinctions that are a matter of fact (e.g. the recording is too bass-heavy), or we can use more subjective descriptions (e.g. the mids are thick, the top-end is too brittle). I would say the most common words to describe bass are: boomy, boxy, tight, thick, heavy, rich, etc. And not to say that people aren’t allowed to use their own subjective words of course, it’s just to me it kind of tied in with the misinformed marketing strategy that I think people have experienced with this company.

one more thing, i think ‘tight’ bass would be a more commonly-recognised term, rather than ‘crisp’. crisp is onomatopoeic and usually refers to high frequency performance.