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https://www.theabsolutesound.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/The-Physics-of-Describing-Music-Reproduction.jpg1472832The Physics of Describing Music Reproduction - In order to communicate about the quality of music reproduction we experience listening to audio gear, we need some terminology. This article explains how the terminology we use for The Absolute Sound’s reviews and articles is based in a fundamental set of audible parameters, or is based on “The Physics of Describing Music Reproduction”. This sounds fancy, but it is really quite simple.