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???? High End, Hi-Fi and Hi-Res – tempting designations on audio equipment still plunge many impressionable fans of upgrading their audio equipment into awe. How to choose cool equipment and not turn from a music lover into an audiophile? From this film, you will learn what all these designations mean, what is their meaning and what technical parameters of the equipment they regulate? You will learn how the requirements for various parameters of audio equipment have changed over time and to what extent they can be improved? You will learn how to easily choose a very good device (amplifier or other) and not go to extremes. Contents 00:00 Beautiful music is primary 0:52 Epigraph 2:10 High End – it can't be cooler 3:37 Hi-Fi. Where did it start? 4:40 Classes of radio equipment in the USSR 5:53 How did the parameters of Hi-Fi change? 6:15 DIN 45500 Parameters: Frequency Response and Distortion 7:20 Confusion with the Harmonic Distortion Factor 9:06 Electrical Damping Factor 9:30 Improvement of the 1983 Hi-Fi Standard 10:45 Modification of the 1988 Standard. As Cool as It Gets 12:00 The Oddity of the Current Standard 12:40 Tubes Again? 14:07 How to Choose a Cool Device Without Going to Extremes? 16:29 Slew Rate of Output Voltage 17:39 Is Hi-Res Even Cooler? 19:36 Feasibility Support the channel on Patreon - / ensemb or Click the SPONSOR button under the video - / @ensemb #audiophileerror