The Compleat Fidelitarian

The Compleat FidelitarianThe phrase high fidelity – authorship unknown – actually has been around for about 30 years, but during its first two decades it led a sort of disembodied existence. It was, so to speak, a description in search of a fact.In the late Forties it found its fact, and began at once to enjoy what the French call un succés fou. I say fou purposely, in the sense of crazy, since in the last few years the words high fidelity, and their contraction hi-fi, have been used to help sel...