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A piece of audio equipment's ability to reveal subtle background elements in a recording — small textures, faint layers — that lesser gear smooths over or loses entirely.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The detail retrieval is wild, I heard a background vocal I never noticed before."
LORE & ORIGIN
Standard audiophile evaluation term for resolution-focused listening, used to compare gear on how much previously-unnoticed content it exposes in familiar tracks.
FIRST SEEN
2012
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Audiophile Internet)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Slang
Related To:SoundstageImaging
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