Abstract7 is right to my mind. If you listen for example to a solo violin or a solo piano very carefully, you will notice, how the tone appears and spreads in the soundspace with its overtones forming a cluster around its tonal core, if you like. If you were to translate this into colour, it would, for example be like a strong red at its central core, which then would spread out, like ripples from a stone thrown into a pond, into different hues of red, getting weaker and weaker in intensity. It is how the tone, or a succession of tones, spead and decay after their first appearance, which is called the halo. If a system reproduces this well, it has , as Abstract has suggested, air. Electrostatics do this quite nicely, though still far from the real thing.
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