Once upon a time on usenet Iain wrote:
maanantai 9. huhtikuuta 2018 1.19.24 UTC+3 Dave Plowman (News)
kirjoitti:
Trevor wrote:
The goal
of a high fidelity system is to recreate, as closely as possible,
the original musical event.

Dave replied
Ah - right. What sort of music would that be?

Me:
Surely a loudspeaker is designed to reproduce sound (music, speech,
birdsongs, or even a jack-hammer) with the closest possible fidelity.

Then why is it called a loud 'speaker'? I'm pretty sure they were originally
designed to reproduce voice. Anything else is gravy.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy
little classification in the DSM*."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1)
(*Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)