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In Reply to: RE: Wouldn't they be "lo-fi" then? posted by morricab on March 18, 2015 at 14:28:52
not if the brand is identified and marketed as 'mid-fi' and that is what i am trying to avoid. anyway, what self-respecting manufacturer calls itself low-fi?? (if they exist, i praise them on their honesty and modesty).
thanks for interest.
like your postings.
roger wang
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Please identify some gear that is actively being marketed as "mid-fi". Inquiring minds would like to know.
No manufacturer or reseller I'm aware of would openly advertise their "affordable quality" gear as being "mid-fi" because doing so might degrade market value.
and i KNOW i have heard mid-fi brands called mid-fi at least by dealers; the real question is what has been identified as low-fi?, a question not considered by you, apparently.
thanks for interest.
roger wang
*The question* has indeed been considered by me. It is you who seems to have not given it it's due consideration.What a dealer or anyone else might say "off the cuff" probably has very little to do with what the manufacturer or the marketeer would say (or wish to be said) about their products. IMO.
"Midfi" might be a term used mostly by audiophile consumers, not marketeers or manufacturers. The words "low-fi, "mid-fi", and "hi-fi" all sound too purely subjective, so I think that most official people would tout other things that are unrelated to the purely subjective evaluation - things like measurements and physical features, rather than names. If they use those terms at all they would probably be used half-jokingly, in reference to other people's products, not their own.
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my posting wasn't meant to be a 'manufacturer-approved' label just what audiophiles would call mid-fi and the brands that don't meet good quality for the 400 to 600 dollar range i suggested.
by the way, supposedly objective measurements could be considered high-low-middle quality too, no?
thanks for interest.
roger wang
Classifying gear by measurements alone simply doesn't work.It helps if there is some sort of consensus among a group of audiophiles, but you can see what little help that is. Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what "Fi" really is and how much it means to us.
Edits: 03/21/15
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