Hi-Fi… Then ‘Aifai’… and Finally ‘Ai-End’…

AUDIOPHILE REFLECTIONS — #02 Summer Edition

Marco Lincetto offers a deliberately provocative account of high fidelity’s transition from a technical and cultural phenomenon to an increasingly segmented and expensive market.

From the spread of the microgroove record and domestic equipment to today’s High-End sector, reproduced music has alternated democratisation, innovation and growing exclusivity.

The central question is not whether progress should be rejected, but when price, status and communication stop serving music and begin dictating the rules of listening.

Marco Lincetto