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Chris -- 2018-04-11
This one comes up on audio forums quite frequently (not to mention “base” for “bass”, which makes sense since “bass” is often the foundation or “base” of a song). “Taut bass” refers to “tight”, clearly articulated bass reproduction. I’ve supposed that the mishearing is explained as ‘bass that has been “taught” to perform clearly and articulately’ (as opposed to boomy, uncontrolled bass, which I guess is “uninstructed”...).
Here are a couple of examples from audioasylum.com
Not only do they have deep, powerful, taught bass. They add a ton of air to the sound stage making it sound much deeper.
Then the clean taught bass makes it possible to put on the piano music and not get overwhelmed with boomy sounding piano bass, ...
Later Siemens 7308 are a smidge more dynamic and have a more taught bass than Amperex 7308.
Last edited by rhetorick (2010-07-31 17:40:54)
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Cute. It seems there should be other contexts as well where taut means “tight[ly controlled]†and would be similarly susceptible to reanalysis as taught .
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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We did a “taught/taut” thread in 2008: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/forum/view … hp?id=2458
“Bass/base” is in the Database: http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/62/base/
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