It’s easy to miss harmonic richness.
You don’t notice its absence until one day, by chance or by luck, you hear it in full bloom. And then, like tasting real maple syrup after years of the artificial stuff, there’s no going back.
Harmonic richness isn’t just about a beautiful midrange or extended overtones. It’s the connective tissue of music—the subtle interplay of tone, decay, and resonance that gives life to sound. The challenge? Some equipment—electronic or loudspeaker—strips it away in the name of clarity, leaving us with a sterile, over-scrubbed version of reality.
Think of it as the difference between hearing a piano and feeling the weight of the hammers on strings.
The best recordings capture it, and the best systems reproduce it.
Once you’ve heard it, it’s all you’ll ever want.
