Editing Phonograph record (section)

===High fidelity===
{{Further|High fidelity}}

The term "high fidelity" was coined in the 1920s by some manufacturers of radio receivers and phonographs to differentiate their better-sounding products claimed as providing "perfect" sound reproduction.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZmjkJwxyWcC&pg=PA94 |page=94 |title=Sound recording: the life story of a technology|last=Morton|first=David L. Jr.|publisher=JHU Press |year=2006 |isbn=0-8018-8398-9|series=Greenwood technographies |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510065232/https://books.google.com/books?id=0ZmjkJwxyWcC&pg=PA94|archive-date=10 May 2016 }}</ref> The term began to be used by some audio engineers and consumers through the 1930s and 1940s. After 1949 a variety of improvements in recording and playback technologies, especially stereo recordings, which became widely available in 1958, gave a boost to the "hi-fi" classification of products, leading to sales of individual components for the home such as amplifiers, loudspeakers, phonographs, and tape players.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6MwHCqVcERYC&pg=PR15 |page=xv–xvi |title=Audio signal processing and coding |last1=Spanias |first1=Andreas |first2=Ted |last2=Painter |first3=Venkatraman |last3=Atti |publisher=Wiley-Interscience |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-471-79147-8 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511021926/https://books.google.com/books?id=6MwHCqVcERYC&pg=PR15 |archive-date=11 May 2016 }}</ref> [[High Fidelity (magazine)|''High Fidelity'']] and [[Audio (magazine)|''Audio'']] were two magazines that hi-fi consumers and engineers could read for reviews of playback equipment and recordings.