Warm Sound?

[Gremal]

Warm means polite or imprecise, veiled, the opposite of cold or analytical. We've all heard components that can't make an offensive sound and I feel that is not what sound reproduction should be about.

Someone above equated CDs with cold and vinyl with warmth, transistors with cold and tubes with warmth. I strongly disagree. Vinyl on a good rig runs the full gamut of mushy, horrible, distorted, congested, congealed warmth to incredibly precise, analytical, open and detailed. Likewise, a good tube amp to my ears sounds far more analytical than the average transistor gear available.