Decades of Musings on HiFi

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Mixing at a Behringer 32 Channel Digital Mixing Desk iFi Pro series and prototype active speakers at the Kanton HiFi Show ca 2016 Thorsten
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300B amplifier distortion
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Toccata Mk1

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Why High Fidelity Is Impossible

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High fidelity is not difficult. It is impossible. Measurements and listening agree only at the extremes, there is nothing fixed to be faithful to, and a good HiFi system is an illusion engine. The full argument, with ninety years of ignored distortion metrics and the case against ABX, is in my new position paper, The Audio Heretick’s Progress.