high fidelity

noun

, Electronics.

sound reproduction over the full range of audible frequencies with very little distortion of the original signal.

high fidelity

Often shortened tohi-fi
1. the reproduction of sound using electronic equipment that gives faithful reproduction with little or no distortion
2. ( as modifier )
  a high-fidelity amplifier

First recorded in 1930–35

Think of the way a song seems to jump out of a car radio or a jukebox, and then add the high fidelity of a good sound system.

Then there have been the adaptations of his own books, Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy, all suspiciously good.

All the high-fidelity speakers of the starship Procyon spoke as one, in the skillfully-modulated voice of the trained announcer.

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