tinniness

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The film comes in an excellent black and white full frame transfer; sound production on most of the interior scenes has the tinniness one comes to associate with low budget drive-in films.

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  • The film comes in an excellent black and white full frame transfer; sound production on most of the interior scenes has the tinniness one comes to associate with low budget drive-in films. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Then I hear the familiar tinniness of the fake machismo I know so well from George W. Bush and all the other frat boys who never went to Vietnam and never got over the guilt. —  Political Waves
  • Despite the paucity of their parts, the orchestral players were as much part of this glorified chamber music as the soloists, and Lubimov's soft-voiced fortepiano didn't dominate the soundworld (just as well, too: his earlier performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto was a Pythonesque combination of skeletal, out-of-tune tinniness from his instrument and lumpen, inelegant phrasing). —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • I haven't noticed any tinniness to the music when I listen through the AirCurve. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets
  • Audio quality via the speaker isn't so flash, with distortion and tinniness marring the clarity of songs and videos. —  CNET Australia
 

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