High-end audio

High-end audio equipment is created to be the best, regardless of what it might turn out to cost. High-end audio equipment can be extremely expensive. People who buy this type of equipment are sometimes called audiophiles.

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High-end audio can refer to the build quality of the components, but more specifically, refers to the ability to reproduce more accurate music. This can be judged on a variety of levels, from accuracy to warmth, thus fuelling the ever-expanding high-end audio market. Audiophiles tend to look at high-end audio as a hobby, rather than a product that they purchase. It involves the careful tuning of a series of components, including the room itself.

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Professional recording studios seldom use high-end audio gear for monitoring recording sessions. Instead, studios use their own kind of players, amplifiers, signal processors, and speakers, built to very high standards by the professional audio industry. Such monitor gear is designed to optimize acoustical accuracy, whereas high-end audio gear is designed to optimize the somewhat more subjective goal of musical accuracy.

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