HiFi vs MidFi

So, I propose a toast to all the “mifi” manufacturers and products that brought us where we are today. Without “midfi” we wouldn’t have gotten to “hifi”. Midfi = mid-priced/mid performance. Let’s all grab a bottle/glass of mid-priced/mid performance beer/wine/other and celebrate one of the best friends we’ve ever had.

Great post! thanks


I will only add that mid-fi gear + acoustic control is almost or near  Hi-Fi if it is not there...

High end gear minus acoustic control and without room treatment is sometimes "Worst-Fi" or at best fatiguing and in the best case very under his potential S.Q.....

I first mid-fi as a term from a friend of mine - his definition was a category of music used as background music.

And then he turned on his TV, searched YouTube and put on a mid-fi video was a fireplace with 'smooth jazz' playing.

I liked his definition because background music is important!

Before the inevitable debate over how high 'high' is, may I submit that everyone--all of us here, certainly--listen to "Mid-fi" systems due to the fact that there is no metric for measuring this particular form of highness as though it was a measure of a physical presence. If anyone ever attains the state of true High-fi--I suppose we'll all hear about it. Maybe before their ascension.

What do you mean, "if"? And who is "we"?

I would consider it the best equipment you can score at BestBuy.  All other conditions mentioned considered like room treatment ect…