About

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Hello! My name is Joe Pfeiffer, I live in New York City and I created Hi-Fipedia after being inspired by a

book⁠

on Hi-Fi history my best friend and fellow audiophile gave me in 2023. This site is meant for anyone looking to learn or understand how a home audio system works. It’s also an attempt to aggregate and organize all those audio specs for anyone looking to compare products or do research. The specs come from a series of scripts I wrote since it can take forever to dig through an audio companies website to find details.

The site gets updated every few weeks as new products come out.

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Background

My own Hi-Fi journey started in the 1980’s when my dad would literally do this to me:

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In the late 90’s I worked at Best Buy and eventually became a Magnolia Hi-Fi installer where I installed dozens of high-end systems across Wisconsin. I became an on-air college radio show host and web designer at

Radio K⁠

in the early 2000’s.

My degree is in computer engineering so I know enough to understand basic amplifier design but after I got out of school I’ve been mostly focused on software, so all this Hi-Fi stuff has just been a fun side-hobby.

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