Were you able to buy it for 3 Kellogs Frosted Flakes box tops and $10?
Well . Have no fear . Thats not MID FI.
6 boxtops and $50 . Now were onto something.
If youve paid enough for it to have bought a very nice new import vehicle instead its not MID Fi . Unless youve mismatched all the components badly.
MID FI looking back down from an Ultra Fi view point is another way to see things as well a $30K retail system then could be thought of as mid to low fi if only $$$ are the parameters.
As was said MID FI is what others own not us regardless what it is or what it cost us, perhaps.
I don't care if it has tone controls, or the speaker wires are hard wired to the unit or the speakers themselves....
if you have to actually think for a good while about buying it Discuss it with your spouse, Cash in on your 401K, Scheme up a way to rob an armored truck, or take out a loan or save for some decent amount of time you sure aint going to think its MID FI no matter what!
...and if you have a 50 inch or larger plasma outfitted witha Bose soudn system... well... I guarantee those folks don't feel their rig is MID FI at all!
I know... most of my friends have exactly that!