"Harry Lavo" wrote in message

I said:
The hobby is still called high-fi and that has a meaning. Anything that
gets us closer to the intent of the artist by removing distortion,
noise,
compression, or whatever might be hiding the choices made by the artist
and
the engineer is a benefit. I don't really care about other preferences,
they are yours and you're welcome to them, but if they include things
like
flawed playback devices, they are LOWER-fi.


Unfortunately, the hobby hasn't been called "high-fi" in many
years...high-end audio has replaced that terminology.

That should make you think. Why was the term Hi-Fi abandoned?

Could it be that it the real advancements have been done?