How do you add color?

@vthokie83 +1 with your description of what you prefer (so well said) - this is extremely close to my sound preferences, but I’ve never been good at articulating. 

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“Timbre, texture, tonality is what helps you get emotionally connected with your music.”
+1000 @arafiq well said! And both SS and Tube components are equally adept at delivering these qualities. The rub lies in one’s ability to identify such components and able to put them together into a system that connects you with the music at much deeper levels. 

I use a Crayon Amplifer for color, tonality, timbre and texture. 

To the canonical factors associated with music , Edgar Choueiri the genius in acoustic, added the spatial factors , which now we can use in recording DSP and -playback system with his BACCH filters...

Canonical musical factors : pitch, timbre, texture, volume/ dynamics, attack/duration/decay, melody, rhythm, and form.

Spatial factors : Reverb; Envelopment; Depth & Proximity; Spatial Extent & Resolution; Motion; Spatial Modulation; and Spatial Segregation.

This speak about the sound and the soundfield relation to be way more than just about  what audiophiles speaking about gear called "colors"...

Acoustics is the key and the road in audio not the gear which is only the vehicle and tool ....

Acoustics is the sleeping princess, your ears/brain is the kissing prince and the gear components are the 7 working dwarves...

I think that a couple of you misunderstood what I said. I wasn't suggesting that certain speakers or electronics add timbre or texture. I was saying that the best ones expose the timbre and texture that actually exists in the recording. It's not an added coloration.