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7 unusual facts about High Fidelity


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John Atkinson, current editor of Stereophile, stated (in a 2005 July editorial named Blind Tests & Bus Stops) that he once purchased a solid-state amplifier, the Quad 405, in 1978 after blind tests, but came to realize months later that "the magic was gone" until he replaced it with a tube amp.

Classical music fans, who were opinion leaders in the audio market, quickly adopted LPs because, unlike with older records, most classical works would fit on a single LP.

Data gleaned from these double-blind tests is not accepted by some "audiophile" magazines such as Stereophile and The Absolute Sound in their evaluations of audio equipment.

International Audio Group

The International Audio Group (IAG) is a Chinese manufacturer of consumer and professional audio & HiFi components.

John A. Westlake

John Alexander Westlake (born July 1970) – a Hi Fi designer of British & Czech origin.

Westlake started his Hi Fi career in his early twenties while working for a Hi Fi company Pink Triangle.

In 2008, after years of research and working for semiconductor companies, he started his own company - Lakewest Audio & returned to designing Hi Fi products.


Anna Pihl

The series stars Charlotte Munck (Kongekabale) as the title character Anna Pihl, Peter Mygind, and Iben Hjejle (High Fidelity and Blinkende Lygter) as Mikala.

Daniel J. Shanefield

Beginning in the mid-1970s, Shanefield was an early proponent of double-blind ABX testing of high-end audio electronics; in 1980 he reported in High Fidelity magazine that there were no audible differences between several different power amplifiers, setting off what became known in audiophile circles as "the great debate".

Emma Thomas

Aside from producing films, the London-born Thomas worked as a script supervisor throughout the 1990s, and was an assistant to director Stephen Frears on High Fidelity (2000).

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

Over the years, the Green Mill has appeared in many films, such as Thief (1981), Next of Kin (1989), V. I. Warshawski (1991), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Folks! (1992), Soul Food (1997) and High Fidelity (2000).

Jeffrey Seller

Jeffrey has also produced and/or developed De La Guarda (1998), Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party (2000), Baz Luhrmann's production of Puccini’s La Bohème (2002) and High Fidelity (2006), title of show (2008), and West Side Story (2009).

Lafesta

Lafesta was the first station that adopted the AACV2+ codec, that produce high fidelity, while still minimizing bandwidth consumption.

The Fisher

The Fisher was the brand name for hi-fi electronic equipment manufactured in New York by The Fisher Radio Corp. during the "golden age" of the vacuum tube, which was named after the company founder, Avery Fisher.

Vintage Vinyl

The most noteworthy example of this is when former Evanston resident John Cusack chose the store as the original filming location for the movie High Fidelity.

Wicker Park, Chicago

Another film of note that uses Wicker Park as its background is High Fidelity (2000) directed by Stephen Frears and starring Evanston-born John Cusack.


see also

Arthur Keller

Arthur C. Keller (1901–1983), pioneer of high-fidelity and stereophonic recording techniques

Jack Lukeman

In May 2011 Lukeman joined forces with fellow Irish singer Julie Feeney to present a series of radio shows on Lyric FM called "High Fidelity".

Meridian Audio

Meridian Audio is a British manufacturer of high-performance, high-fidelity audio and video components and systems founded in 1977 by Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd.