When are speakers considered Hi-Fi and not Mid-Fi???

Trying to create a definitive line between Mid Fi and Hi Fi is a fools errand. At best I may consider the following... 1. The listeners intention, and 2. The type of equipment being assembled. Cost of equipment is not a determining factor in my opinion. As far as intension goes, if you are assembling a system for the purpose of listening to music and during this process you are making decisions to the components used to produce the most life like reproduction, then I would consider what you assembled to be a Hi Fi system. Now, and this is where I get to my second point, you are just purchasing an all in one component (say a BT speaker) this doesn't qualify as Hi Fi to me.

 I've had people over my house who have been amazed by my outdoor speaker pods playing on my deck with a subwoofer that looks like a rock in my yard. Then I bring them into my home to listen to my very modest Hi Fi system and they are just blown away. The same thing seems to happens to most people when I show them my Hi Fi system. They go from just casually hearing the music to actually listening to the music. Suddenly they are aware of the soundstage, the instrument placement in front of them, the ambient sounds in the recording like fingers sliding up guitar strings and the singer taking a breath while he's singing. When you assemble a system that produces that detail, it drags most people in. A Beats Pill isn't going to do that... 

@dekay must have been the stupidest thing I said last week! (Probably not)

I consider my Cornwall IV’s hifi, although I considered them higher hifi before I changed my system around and upgraded to Magico A3’s. Some might say those are not hifi as they are at the bottom of Magico’s line. Both are wonderfully entertaining but for my ears the A3’s are ahead, maybe it’s because I paid 3x the price of the CW’s. What really tells me the Magico’s are hifi is the fact I have no desire to replace them. Let your own ears decide what hifi is, who really cares what others think anyways? 

I just watched a YT video on photography and one man's rational for buying a Leica M11 monochrome camera. He loves shooting in Black & White. His rational is to buy what really moves you and forget the rest. As he's gotten older, he's simplified his life, reducing it to just the essentials and avoiding the all encompassing. 

I've said something similar in my rational for keeping my present speakers and to just stop looking for something else in previous posts. I listened to some new music yesterday and simply loved the sound, again with not analyzing it but reveling in it. That's when it becomes hi-fi for me. I'm older, more settled in my ways, and not into bragging rights or audio envy. 

Now that the obsession is out of the way, there's only the music to attend to.

All the best,
Nonoise

LoFi < MidFi < HiFi < SciFi. Just as it's better to drive a slow car fast, it's better to listen to good music on a bad system, than bad music on a great system.

I'm just in this for the music.