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Most people don't know a damn thing about sound. It's a shame, too, because their misconceptions lead them to purchase bad hi-fi equipment. The man in the street will tell you a response from 20-20,000 cps is the test of a good set. The fact is that even the worst Japanese amplifier will advertise this rating. Frequency response merely tells the potential buyer that the unit can, under ideal conditions, reproduce all audible tones...
Even at this late date there remains some confusion between the terms "hi-fi" and "stereo." Although both words refer to acoustic conditions the first deals with quality of sound while the second is concerned with spatial characteristics...
...first system is noted for the manner in which violins and bass drums played on it sound like real violins and bass drums (even though they both come from the same place). This is hi-fi without stereo...
...noted for the way the violins come from the listener's left, as they would in a concert hall, and the bass drums from the left-of-center rear. But with this system one notices that violins sound like flutes and bass drums are hardly audible. This stereo without hi...
Stereo then is no "higher hi-fi". It is rather a whole new dimension completely unrelated to quality but intimately concerned with depth, width, and direction of sound...