[Joeboy]

> The audiophile definition of a "warm" sound signature

I don't really know what, if anything, that means. But if we're talking about fidelity, surely the ideal would be no sound signature? If a particular "sound signature" makes it sound "warm", surely it's decreasing the fidelity?

[Drew_]

You're lack of knowledge of this matter is very evident and you're skepticism and confusion would be very easily cleared if you made an actual honest exploration into hi-fi audio

[tonyarkles]

I'm an EE and have made an honest exploration into this topic many times, and yet still have no explanation of "warmth" beyond the addition of distortion resulting in even-ordered harmonics. Which is precisely a decrease in the SNR from input-to-output.

That might sound good! But it's a less-than-perfect reproduction of the source signal.

If there's a better explanation than what I've come across every time I've search for this, I'm all ears and honestly open to being corrected.