Please Use Proper Electronics Terminology!

[jhadhar65]

I've started to notice how many of my fellow forumites tend to talk in concrete terms, such as "master volume set on 3" or "the sound was muffled".  We obviously need a reminder that true Appreciators of Amplifier Mojo should use much more colorful and descriptive language.

To help you along, I'm posting this handy generator.  Click on the link and you'll be able to describe your latest build just like a Musician's Friend reviewer:

http://www.tech-diy.com/audio_bs.htm



(NOTICE:  No audiophools were harmed in the making of this post.)

[Dynaflow]

 heh, pretty funny, but true. I was listening to the 65 amps 'lil Elvis' on youtube and Dan Boule kept using the term: "The amp has such a vocabulary" I'm like wtf does that mean? 

Regards,

Dyna

[Ritchie200]

Yeah, well it still does not tell me what the little round striped dohickies are with the wires comming out of each end are...  And as far as I am concerned, you need more than 100 watts to sonically disrobe....like maybe...oh... 200!

Jim

[mackie2]

Click really fast and get yer.... self in a technical consternation figgit...!!!???

Mackie2

[Frankenamp]

The pathetic thing is I have read equipment reviews that use the same terms! Well except that the generator has not popped up 'lifting the sonic veil' ... yet.

[darkbluemurder]

This is great! BTW BS language is in no way limited to the music industry. It has crept into many business areas. 

@Dyna: I guess Dan meant by "vocabulary" that the amp has many different tones to offer instead of just being a "one trick pony".

Cheers Stephan

[jhadhar65]

Then you guys will definitely like this:

(This is actually PRR describing a Champ, circa 1964.  )

[GuitarPilot65]

I don't know how that guy kept a straight face while babbling through that mumbo jumbo.
One that makes the hair on the back of my neck stand-up is the proliferation of the word "organic" to describe everything from music to food.  I guess in both cases, it refers to each being "less processed" and more "natural" (guitar sounds with fewer effects, foods grown with fewer fertilizers, etc.).  When I was in school, organic meant that a compound had a C in its chemical formula (for carbon), such as CO₂.  Almost all foods are organic anyway.  Funny.

[billcreller]

 EVerything on TV these days is the same hype and bull. A good example is those channels owned/produced by the Discovery channel. "if he should move his foot one inch, he could be dead" etc.  What a bunch of crap.
   Of course the news networks are the champions when it comes to sensationalism

  Maybe the folks who produce this stuff are audiofools too

[Shrapnel]

That reminds me of some of those video clip shows on Tru-TV... speaking of how close something was when in actuality... well we all get the picture, BS meters are off the charts where the networks haven't unplugged them. (Hmm, like they try to unplug the best BS meters, our brains.)