The term "High End" needs to die. Long live Hi-Fidelity!

Sorry millercarbon, I agree with erik and bdp24. I know that high end has been around for a long time, but high fidelity is a more accurate description of the hobby, and high end can easily be construed as snobbish, but even if it isn't, it is much less descriptive than high fidelity. And by the way, the term high fidelity came first anyway.

J. Gordon Holt himself found the term objectionable, preferring to use High Performance. What I did not yet know when I saw the term in the early issues of The Absolute Sound, was that the term was already in use in other types of consumer goods---furniture, clothing, kitchen appliances, etc. It's use implied high prices, that's literally what the term meant. 

It's use implied high prices, that's literally what the term meant.

@bdp24

Exactly.

Agreed. So it is by no means exclusive to the audio hobby.

Agreed Erik High Fidelity!