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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
Technology
Ketan Bharadia

The most important component in your hi-fi system isn’t what you think it is

What Hi-Fi? test room

Which component do you think makes the most difference in your system? The conventional wisdom on that question has varied over time. In the early days of hi-fi, it was thought to be the speakers. And that’s totally understandable.

After all, they are the things that actually turn the electronic music signal into the sound waves we hear, and so must be the most important part of a system, right? Well, not if you asked the exact same question in the 1980s and 1990s. 

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