It's like thickness and thin: bass is big and treble is the high, thin stuff.
When you notice a tall, thin bass wearing a top hat and sporting a beard, you realize that all hundred singers have been made to resemble famous people of the past, from Cleopatra to Henry VIII and on to Lincoln, Gandhi, and Jackie O.
Different sounding Moks look differently—hihats are thin, bass drums are fat with different Moks from different lands each having different musical styles.
Mr. Gilbert, who has conducted the piece often, drew a buoyant and richly colorful performance from the Philharmonic players and brought dramatic tension to the prolonged final section, which peters out slowly as musical elements thin, and bass lines settle into sustained, exhausted pedal tones.
You don't have to have experienced Atmos systems before, either, to notice how thin the bass end of a movie soundtrack sounds compared with the openness and scale of the mid and upper range.
But its memory evaporated when I moved on to the specialty of the house: paper-thin sea bass carpaccio topped with a fresh mango sauce speckled with chopped cilantro, tomato, dill and corn.
For anyone under 45, it's hard to think of Hodges and bandmate Dave Peacock (the slightly thinner one, bass) as anything but synonymous with the 1980s, when their "rockney" music – a knees-up blend of rock'n'roll, music hall and boogie-woogie – was the epitome of cheery British light entertainment.
Part of this is taken up by the speakers, which have a decent output in terms of volume but as with most ultra thin laptops the bass response is very weak, leading to a tinny sound.
The killer technology here, though, is AKG's Varimotion transducers, which are thicker in the middle, so they retain stiffness for tweeter-like highs, while the edges are thinner for deeper bass extension.
The music combines buzzing bass lines, thin melodies, and pale clouds of digitized voices.
The only disappointment here was a dish of sea bass in thin, weak broth.
