Hi-Fi Audio Doesn’t Need To Be Expensive

You don’t need to spend thousands to get Hi-Fi sound. Roughly $400 on a JDS Atom stack, Philips headphones, and an Apple Music subscription can change how you hear music.

Courtesy Philips
Philips Fidelio X2HR and JDS Stack. Courtesy Philips

If you’re looking for snake oil, Hi-Fi audio companies will happily sell it to you by the gallon. From expensive plugs to cleanse your power supply, to little gizmos to lift your cables off the ground, to extra special plated HDMI cables that supposedly improve sound quality, there are endless expensive products for sale that will only improve your audio quality through the placebo effect.

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