Digression: some unconventional dimensions of sound

Volume

 ‐volume as in breadth, fullness or mass
 ‐can be accurately defined?

Brightness

 ‐accurate definition: a given high/low energy balance metric
 ‐one of the few accurate timbre related metrics

Density

 ‐spectral density measure
 ‐can be defined accurately but is very difficult to make psychoacoustically linear

Brilliance

 ‐singing formants
 ‐nasal sounds
 ‐brass instruments
 ‐this is fuzzy!