Music for unborn babies
Some studies indicate that, if you play music to the unborn babies, they can hear and even react to the sound by moving or with the rhythm of their breathing. Research and specialists make us […]
Signal latency and cutouts
Signal latency and cutouts are not the first thing that comes to your mind, when developing a tool to measure minimum criteria for HiFi capability of an audio system. Making things easier and user friendly […]
How to separate the wheat from the chaff when selecting audio systems?
Wouldn’t it be good to have a label on audio systems that informs us about the product quality ranking? Like on TV, a full HD or 4K sticker. This would not differentiate between high-end products, […]
My HiFi Story
Music, and it’s reproduction Hi. This is David Haigner. I intend to share my personal reflexion about music, measurement and observations, based on my own journey towards high fidelity music reproduction. I will not care […]
Why people buy crappy sounding systems
(and how they could test them before buying)… Listening or measuring A decision to buy a sound system is usually based on listening experience and merely on measurements. This is probably true for rather high-end […]
How to TestHiFi your own system at home?
Many people question why to test the own system at home. Most of them fully understand the value of TestHiFi when buying an audio system. TestHiFi helps to check the HiFi capability of an audio […]
TestHiFi microphone calibration
TestHiFi microphone calibration is important, because TestHiFi measures the HiFi capability of a sound system by sending a complex test signal through the sound system and recording the signal played back by the sound system. […]
HiFi – what exactly does it mean? High Fidelity definition, DIN, EN, ISO, IEEE?
What is the HiFi standard? Nowadays, if we want to know something, we look into Wikipedia and here we get: High fidelity (often shortened to hi-fi or hifi) is a term used by listeners, audiophiles […]
The origin of the idea TestHiFi
I have turned into an audiophile The idea TestHiFi started several years ago, when I wanted to listen to better music. I was fed up with the wishy washy, just ok, and loud enough sound […]
HiFi store owner appreciates TestHiFi – now customers will better understand HiFi
Vienna, on a sunny afternoon in June, we entered the store “Raum-Akustik” of Georg Wölfl in the 8th district. In the first second you recognize, this store is unique. Georg opened it in 1977 and you […]