Hi-Fi Audio As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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1,107 words · ~5 min read
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do you have that one friend who spends hundreds of dollars on a pair of
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headphones and then sits in the corner of the room clutching some studio grade
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CDs and rambling about gold wires and
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tube amps while listening to them well maybe not but they do exist and what
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sounds like Madness to the rest of us is
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necessary for some to feel like they're getting a better high five experience
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but what is this highi well in short
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high-fi or high Fidelity is a term used by Audio enthusiasts referring to the
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high quality reproduction of sound all
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right lonus then so Hi-Fi is just speakers or headphones that are good
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right well actually hold on it is a bit more complicated than that the journey
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started as early as the 1930s when a violinist wanted to make a radio that
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sounded like he was listening to a live Orchestra and would achieve High
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Fidelity when compared to the original recording ing by experimenting with the
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Acoustics of speaker casings in 1948
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even greater Innovations brought about a revolution in high quality audio uh some
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of the key developments being realtoreal tape micr Grove vinyl records and FM
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radio so the point of high-fi then is to
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get as close to the original recording as possible so while it might be fun and
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it might sound good to crank the base up to 11 that would no longer be High
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Fidelity when compared to the source audio so then what separates Hi-Fi from
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a consumer grade audio system the most obvious thing the speakers a Hi-Fi
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speaker's job is to produce sound exactly as it was originally recorded
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and received by the speaker with as little alteration or coloration as
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possible they're generally constructed with higher quality materials and
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sometimes even exotic enclosures to reduce resonance mechanical noise and
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interference this this makes them more expensive to manufacture and leaves less
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room for defects a recurring theme by the way through the components that make
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up an entire Hi-Fi system amplifiers also play an important role in
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reproducing sound accurately it's very important that these amplifiers have
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high quality power supplies capable of converting AC to DC power with as little
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interference or electrical noise as possible being an analog setup You Know
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audio stuff more premium cables and wires can in some cases make a slight
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difference since they are made out of more conductive materials and more
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importantly will have better shielding which is explained in the video linked
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here and of course finally the source audio itself plays a huge role in the
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quality of the finished output so in consumer systems it's pretty easy to
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tell the difference between a highquality MP3 and a lowquality bootleg
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but Hi-Fi systems take that one step further and really bring out the detail
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with high resolution audio and while it might be more difficult and I would even
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say very difficult to hear the difference between a high quality MP3
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and a lossless flak the proof is in the pudding and the pudding is in your
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speakers I guess uh but wait hold on a second lus didn't you mention headphones
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at the beginning how are they different from speakers well Hi-Fi headphones are
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typically significantly higher impedance than normal headphones this means they
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actually offer more resist dist than standard headphones this is a carryover
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for when they were originally designed for Studios where multiple listeners
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would be connected to a single amplifier lowering the impedance of an individual
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set of phones significantly these headphones though quickly became the
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standard for Hi-Fi listening because of their compatibility with higher quality
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more powerful amplifiers they also tend to have larger lighter drivers are made
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with higher quality materials and often have an open-backed design allowing for
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a wider more natural sound stage well
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that's all nice and Dand lus but it sounds uh pretty expensive and you would
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be right sort of it can be in 1991
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Sennheiser released a set of headphones called the orus that came with a
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dedicated tube amplifier and they claimed that it was the best Hi-Fi
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headphone in the world this headphone at times has been worth up to
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$30,000 on the used Market making it the most expensive headphones ever made
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until its successor came along actually very recently 24 years later priced at
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$50,000 with this in mind though Hi-Fi
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is high not perfect and there are High
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Fidelity solutions for almost any budget with speakers ranging from $40 a pair
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all the way to over a million bucks a pair a price so high that you could just
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hire a band to play for you full-time everywhere you go although I guess
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there's the added benefit of not having to feed or water the speakers although
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