JB Hi-Fi

JB Hi-Fi is an Australian retailer of consumer electronics, as well as a supplier of video games and of Blu-rays, DVDs, and CDs. It is a chain store operation headquartered in Melbourne.

History

JB Hi-Fi was established in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor East by John Barbuto in 1975. Barbuto sold the business in 1983 to Richard Bouris, David Rodd & Peter Caserta who expanded JB Hi-Fi into a chain of ten stores in Melbourne and Sydney turning over $150 million by 2000, when they sold the majority of their holding to private equity. It was subsequently floated on the Australian Stock Exchange in October 2003.

At first, the company specialised in Hi-Fi equipment. As the mainstream popularity of vinyl records declined, in 1991 JB Hi-Fi cleared out their entire stock of records and began offering exclusively CDs, and were one of the first Australian music retailers to do so. (However, due to the recent revival of vinyl records larger stores began to stock them again.) This allowed JB Hi-Fi to open many new stores in Melbourne and later expand to other states. The chain now has stores all around Australia and in New Zealand's largest cities.

High fidelity

High fidelity—or hi-fi or hifi—reproduction is a term used by home stereo listeners and home audio enthusiasts to refer to high-quality reproduction of sound to distinguish it from the poorer quality sound produced by inexpensive audio equipment, or the inferior quality of sound reproduction that can be heard in recordings made until the late 1940s. Ideally, high-fidelity equipment has minimal amounts of noise and distortion and an accurate frequency response.

History

Bell Laboratories began experimenting with wider-range of recording techniques in the early 1930s. Performances by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra were recorded in 1931 and 1932 using telephone lines between the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the labs in New Jersey. Some multi-track recordings were made on optical sound film, which led to new advances used primarily by MGM (as early as 1937) and Twentieth Century Fox (as early as 1941). RCA Victor began recording performances by several orchestras on optical sound around 1941, resulting in higher-fidelity masters for 78-rpm discs.

Hi-Fi (Compulsion album)

Hi-Fi is a compilation album released by Compulsion in 1995.

Track listing

Personnel

Hi-Fi (Russian band)

Hi-Fi is a Russian pop dance group established in 1998 founded by composer Pavel Esenin and songwriter and producer Eric Chanturia. The concept of group was the male leader and two supportive dancers-performers till 2006, when Katya(Ekaterina) Lee joined the group.

Katya started her career in the band with solo song Vzletai. From then on female and male vocals had equal parts. When Katya Lee left, the group went back to the old concept of the male singing. In 2009 Mitya Fomin left the group and started solo career. Later in 2010 Katya Lee left the group and joined another popular girls band Fabrika. The group has had many hits on the Russian charts and has won "Best Dance Group" at the Russian television "Муз-ТВ" in 2005.

Members