do you have that one friend who spends hundreds of dollars on a pair of
headphones and then sits in the corner of the room clutching some studio grade
CDs and rambling about gold wires and
tube amps while listening to them well maybe not but they do exist and what
sounds like Madness to the rest of us is
necessary for some to feel like they're getting a better high five experience
but what is this highi well in short
high-fi or high Fidelity is a term used by Audio enthusiasts referring to the
high quality reproduction of sound all
right lonus then so Hi-Fi is just speakers or headphones that are good
right well actually hold on it is a bit more complicated than that the journey
started as early as the 1930s when a violinist wanted to make a radio that
sounded like he was listening to a live Orchestra and would achieve High
Fidelity when compared to the original recording ing by experimenting with the
Acoustics of speaker casings in 1948
even greater Innovations brought about a revolution in high quality audio uh some
of the key developments being realtoreal tape micr Grove vinyl records and FM
radio so the point of high-fi then is to
get as close to the original recording as possible so while it might be fun and
it might sound good to crank the base up to 11 that would no longer be High
Fidelity when compared to the source audio so then what separates Hi-Fi from
a consumer grade audio system the most obvious thing the speakers a Hi-Fi
speaker's job is to produce sound exactly as it was originally recorded
and received by the speaker with as little alteration or coloration as
possible they're generally constructed with higher quality materials and
sometimes even exotic enclosures to reduce resonance mechanical noise and
interference this this makes them more expensive to manufacture and leaves less
room for defects a recurring theme by the way through the components that make
up an entire Hi-Fi system amplifiers also play an important role in
reproducing sound accurately it's very important that these amplifiers have
high quality power supplies capable of converting AC to DC power with as little
interference or electrical noise as possible being an analog setup You Know
audio stuff more premium cables and wires can in some cases make a slight
difference since they are made out of more conductive materials and more
importantly will have better shielding which is explained in the video linked
here and of course finally the source audio itself plays a huge role in the
quality of the finished output so in consumer systems it's pretty easy to
tell the difference between a highquality MP3 and a lowquality bootleg
but Hi-Fi systems take that one step further and really bring out the detail
with high resolution audio and while it might be more difficult and I would even
say very difficult to hear the difference between a high quality MP3
and a lossless flak the proof is in the pudding and the pudding is in your
speakers I guess uh but wait hold on a second lus didn't you mention headphones
at the beginning how are they different from speakers well Hi-Fi headphones are
typically significantly higher impedance than normal headphones this means they
actually offer more resist dist than standard headphones this is a carryover
for when they were originally designed for Studios where multiple listeners
would be connected to a single amplifier lowering the impedance of an individual
set of phones significantly these headphones though quickly became the
standard for Hi-Fi listening because of their compatibility with higher quality
more powerful amplifiers they also tend to have larger lighter drivers are made
with higher quality materials and often have an open-backed design allowing for
a wider more natural sound stage well
that's all nice and Dand lus but it sounds uh pretty expensive and you would
be right sort of it can be in 1991
Sennheiser released a set of headphones called the orus that came with a
dedicated tube amplifier and they claimed that it was the best Hi-Fi
headphone in the world this headphone at times has been worth up to
$30,000 on the used Market making it the most expensive headphones ever made
until its successor came along actually very recently 24 years later priced at
$50,000 with this in mind though Hi-Fi
is high not perfect and there are High
Fidelity solutions for almost any budget with speakers ranging from $40 a pair
all the way to over a million bucks a pair a price so high that you could just
hire a band to play for you full-time everywhere you go although I guess
there's the added benefit of not having to feed or water the speakers although
maybe that's coming in the future speaking of things coming in the future
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