The amp has a hi res sticker on it, but the headphones and cable don’t. So the amp is hifi but the headphones and cable is not. A few wireless headphones have a hi res logo on them, so they do exist.
just put the sticker on your head and then you’ll hear everything in lossless
Just put the sticker on your ears instead.
Easiest remedy for this is to add stickers to the other components.
Wouldn’t be Hifi without the $1,000 cable 🥶
Even my HD600’s have a “Hi-Res Audio” sticker on the box so i would be surprised if those Focal’s didn’t
It’s down to whether the OEM decided to pay the Japan Audio Society to use the mark or not. Focal did not.
https://www.jas-audio.or.jp/english/hi-res-logo-en/use-situation-en
don’t chase the status
Another kidney and you really got to put your heart and soul into it as well to really achieve Hifi.
You don’t show the most important part: Do you use an audiphile ethernet cable for 1000$?
BTW funfact: The german Standard for HiFi (which is old, existed until 1996) was called “DIN 45500” and it said that you need ±5dB from 250Hz to 6300Hz. I think your equipment may achieve that.
I’m fucking tired of claims that the only true hifi headphones are worth 1000 dollars or more. The hifi treshold is too subjective that there’s a hifi range that everyone can agree on. But if you ask me, hifi can be anything that sounds enjoyable to you and precise enough that you can easily hear the important things from your music.
You have to install your own power station in order for it to be “HiFi”. Otherwise you’re just running off dirty power which will automatically downgrade HiFi to LoFi.
People that spent more will never call it hifi, and people that dont have it yet always will
You can live with just one kidney, right?
You could sell someone else’s kidney instead
If you will put some effort into aesthetics in your environment you can be considered as hi fi owner, for now you are just attention wh * :)
So long as you don’t listen to lofi, it’s hifi basically
Dude that’s better then my headphone setup and I make music 💀
you know there is a couple of arguments to this question
on one hand a decent FIO DAC with Ebay HD600’s can. be good
on the other you can go full analog turntable with a tube amp setup
either way both has its charms and merits
Whether or not something is HiFi has basically nothing to do with price. HD58X and an apple dongle is HiFi for under $200 all in. There are $3000 headphones that sound worse than some $300 headphones. Don’t conflate price with sound quality.
You need to go that far to listen YouTube music?