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All our products used in our hobby have one thing in common---they are part of a continuous chain in which the totality of the experience allows one to suspend "disbelief" and instead accept that what one is hearing is "real", as real as you are sitting "there."
Mid-Fi on the other hand just can't cut it. Oh it can get the basic building blocks of the chain whipped up into "respectable" qualities one upon the other. But the chain it builds doesn't even strive to convince you in the least. It may even get loud and clean but deep in your heart you will allways know you are listening to a "canned" performance.
High-Fi by comparison is NOT canned. It "escapes the box." It "transcends mere specifications" and becomes LIFELIKE. One COULD confuse it for the "Real Thing." It is SHOCKING when you hear it. It is a LUXURY to own such a thing.
Therefore to judge a piece of the chain as belonging to OUR hobby you must enquire "DOES "X" CREATE SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF---or NOT???" If it is useless at this task it is not part of the chain. It does not belong. Get rid of it. Kill it, haha.
Sorry. I lost it there at the end. I simply can't take anything this seriously anymore. But perhaps you will find my comments of some use in your search. I had fun saying them.