FIDELITY

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(Latin: fidelis = faithful) The faithfulness, or extent of the correspondence, of a reproduced sound to the original sound; by implication, it is used loosely to describe sound QUALITY and the absence of DISTORTION.

See: ELECTROACOUSTIC, FREQUENCY RESPONSE, HI-FI, LO-FI. Compare: PRESENCE, SCHIZOPHONIA.

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