Stereophile | Midrange Magic 2022 | The Art et Son Room by Robert Schryer
“If I haven’t been obvious enough about it yet, magic was the theme at this Art et Son room, which exhibited a system that Philip has been touring North America with under the banner “The Midrange Magic Tour,” to spread the gospel of—wait for it—midrange magic.
According to the gospel of Philip, “The soul of the music is in the midrange. This is where most of the emotion, the passion, the joie de vivre is contained, the music that lifts our soul to the heavens with happiness or drags it down to the stygian depths of despair.” Amen.
It was a beautiful, tender moment, but also disconcerting: People were sitting right next to me. And even though I tried to mentally prepare myself for the next needle drop, I had the same physical response listening to Montreal harpist Isabeau Corriveau’s Irish-lilted song, “Blackbird,” from her LP A Leap of Faith. Touching? You don’t know the half of it. Midrange magic is real.
As Philip is wont to say, and I couldn’t agree more: “Lovely!”