Toole’s latest book, ‘ Sound Reproduction: The Acoustic and Psychoacoustics of Loudspeakers and Rooms, 3rd Edition’. A better definition of sound quality would serve as a guide post for those seeking audio nirvana, and I do not think one can find a better explanation of this criterion called ‘sound quality’ than Dr.
But what constitutes ‘sound quality’ exactly, in a more precise and scientific sense? Many people have spent a great deal of time and money chasing the better end of ‘sound quality,’ but without an understanding of what ‘sound quality’ is, they are stuck in a blind search for something that simply sounds good to them that they happen to chance upon. People unversed in technical terminology will talk about an audio system’s 'sound quality,' and what they mean is how good does the system sound to them and how ‘accurate’ is it.
