High fidelity—or hi-fi—reproduction is a term used by home stereo listeners and home audio enthusiasts (audiophiles) to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound to distinguish it from the poorer quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has minimal amounts of noise and distortion and an accurate frequency response.
One effort to standardize the term was the 1966 German Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) standard DIN 45500. DIN 45500 approval was intended to provide audio equipment buyers with reassurance that their equipment was capable of good quality reproduction. In theory, only stereo equipment that met the standard could bear the words 'Hi-Fi'. This standard was well intentioned but only mildly successful; in practice, the term was widely misapplied to audio products that did not remotely approach the DIN basis specifications.
Bell Laboratories began experimenting with wider range recording techniques in the early 1930s. Performances by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra were recorded in 1931 and 1932 using telephone lines between the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the labs in New Jersey. Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM (as early as 1937) and Twentieth Century Fox (as early as 1941). RCA Victor began recording performances by several orchestras on optical sound around 1941, resulting in higher fidelity masters for 78-rpm discs.
Top Quality was an American rapper formally signed to RCA Records in the early 1990s.
After appearing in The Source magazine's Unsigned Hype, a column dedicated to finding unsigned talent, Top Quality eventually caught the eye of EPMD's Parrish "PMD" Smith, who made him a member of the rap collective Hit Squad and was subsequently signed a deal with RCA Records. His debut album, Magnum Opus was released in November 1993 and was executively produced by Smith himself. The album, however, was a commercial failure. Unlike other Hit Squad releases at the time, Magnum Opus failed to sell many copies and peaked at only 95 on the Billboard R&B charts.
After being released from RCA, Top Quality appeared on PMD's Shade Business in 1994 and 3rd Eye's Planets in 1998, but he has not been heard of since.
Always I loved you, always untrue
And I know I've ? when im following you
Where are you now, and where did you go
im waiting to find out
Yeah, I wanna know
I've got no reply
I tried to meet you, I keep my clue
But tears like an ocean, thoughts in between
I've got a notion, I know what I seen
I know this emotion, I know what it means
I've got too much time
Mixed up, im fucked up
I never decide
But hear in this song, im along for the ride
Going for something, im going nowhere
Slipping through the city sliding train to train
Sulking on the subway music in our brain
She and me together in the city sounds
Me and mona lisa on the underground
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Slipping through the city sliding brain to brain
Sulking on the subway listening to the train
She and me together speed through space and time
Grafitti in our eyes and music in our mind
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Hi-fi in the white city yeah yeah
Where you gonna run to now
That you ain’t got space to fill
What you gonna do with your time now
You ain’t got time to kill
Where you locked in coverage falling in time
And it’s hot enough just to let your song go by
I’m gonna give it to you
If you let me give it to you
Hey hey
So let me turn the volume up get a little bit of Hi-Fi
Drown out all the sirens in the back of my mind
Bah bah bah ba
Now you gonna settle your ties
With you aint got bind to tie up
Why burn your bridges?
When you can blow your bridges up
Where you locked in coverage falling in time
And it’s hot enough just to let your ideas go by
I’m gonna give it to you
If you let me give it to you
Hey hey
So let me turn the volume up get a little bit of Hi-Fi
Drown out all the sirens in the back of my mind
Let me turn the volume up get a little bit of Hi-Fi
Drown out all the sirens in the back of my mind
Now they’re calling all cars from the north to the
Southside
Better get the east and its coming from the Westside
They’re calling all cars from the north to the
Southside
Funny how you look at my hi-fi
Touch my hi-fi
Like to listen to my hi-fi
Now I'm gone
Do you really want just another hi-fi,
Or do you want mine?
Do you really want just another hi-fi,
Or do you want mine?
You took a taxi and I paid your fare
The meter's still running
The meter's still running
You took a taxi and I paid your fare
The meter's still running
The meter's still running
Funny how you look at my hi-fi
Touch my hi-fi
Like to listen to my hi-fi
Now I'm gone
Silly you misused my hi-fi
Dissed my hi-fi
Changed tune on my hi-fi
Now I'm gone
Funny how you look at my hi-fi
Touch my hi-fi
Like to listen to my hi-fi
Now I'm gone
What if I turned down my hi-fi
Paused my hi-fi
Swapped discs on my hi-fi
Still you're gone
Talk's dirty to me baby
Treat me clean
Talk's dirty to me baby
Treat me clean
Funny how you look at my hi-fi
Touch my hi-fi
Like to listen to my hi-fi
Now I'm gone
Silly you misused my hi-fi
Dissed my hi-fi
Changed tune on my hi-fi
Now I'm gone
Funny how you look at my hi-fi
Touch my hi-fi
Like to listen to my hi-fi
Now I'm gone
What if I turned down my hi-fi
Paused my hi-fi
Swapped discs on my hi-fi
Still you're gone
Put the hi-fi down!
Hi-Fi broadcast glows the getto
Abandoned minds train the whole city
Rust and dust drips onto the carpet in high resolution and high fidelity
Dance of poverty instructors tap the floor in royal chambers
Cold and hunger twitter at the window with high delicacy and high graciousness
Dla mnie dub to potęga!
To rewolucja w dźwiękach!
To słowo to panika,
gdy wkraczasz na drogę wojownika.
A powietrze wypełnia świety dym.
Zakręć więc gałkami,
wypruj flaki basami!
Radykalne wycieczki,
od nich nie ma ucieczki.
A ja nie cofne się o krok,
bo nie dla mnie słodki Lovers Rock.
Promuję dub niespokojnych Czasów!
I love you and hold me tight and please touch me and I love you.
Now you try to give me a brain wash
And I try to read the secret code.
Don't tell me everything about your love.
Dance, dance, dance the night away.
(One step up)Just now, I levy war against you.
(Two steps up)I have no time any more
(Three steps up)If you are electronic dictator
(Four steps up)or love maker.