An audiophile is a person who is enthusiastic about high-fidelity sound reproduction. An audiophile seeks to reproduce recorded music to achieve high sound quality, typically in a quiet listening space and in a room with good acoustics.
Modern turntable.
Top-loading CD player and external D-to-A converter.
Quad II, an early monoblock valve (vacuum tube) amplifier.
High fidelity is the high-quality reproduction of sound. It is popular with audiophiles and home audio enthusiasts. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has inaudible noise and distortion, and a flat frequency response within the human hearing range.
Hi-fi speakers are a key component of quality audio reproduction
An integrated amplifier combines an audio preamplifier and power amplifier into one unit, and is an example of the "component" approach to assembling a comprehensive sound reproduction system.
Modular components made by Samsung and Harman Kardon, (from the bottom) an audio digital receiver, DVD player, and HD TV receiver
A Sony "midi" hifi from the late 1980s. Despite its appearance mimicking separate components, this is an all-in-one unit featuring a record player, a dual cassette tapedeck, a digital tuner, and an amplifier with integrated equalizer. Other midi systems integrating a CD player were also increasingly common by this point.