lo-fiadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈləʊfʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈloʊˌfaɪ/

Forms: 1900s– Lo-Fi, 1900s– lo-fi, 1900s– lo fi, 1900s– lofi, 1900s– low-fi, 1900s– low fi.

Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: low fidelity n. at low adj. and n.² Compounds 3.

Etymology: Shortened < low fidelity n. at low adj. and n.² Compounds 3, with remodelling of the second syllable after hi-fi adj. and hi-fi n. Compare lo adj.

A. adj.

a. Designating low-quality reproduction, esp. of sound; of, relating to, or characterized by, such reproduction.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > quality of reproduced sound

phonogenic1923

woofy1932

high fidelity1933

lo-fi1954

scratchy1961

scratchless1978

ambient1990

1954 Billboard 1 May 38/4 Should the industry permit its catalogs to be culled for supposed ‘hi-fi’ recordings, the general consumer will be led to believe that unlisted records are second-grade issues, or, let us say, ‘low-fi’.

1957 Musical Times 98 614/2 What is hi-fi in America is apt to sound lo-fi on English gramophones.

1968 Which? Oct. 312/1 You can buy your hi-fi equipment one piece at a time, and play it through the ‘lo-fi’ parts of, say, your old radio.

1970 J. Earl How to choose Tuners & Amplifiers v. 100 The medium-frequency a.m. system is..possibly adequate for ‘lo-fi’ reception on small transistor sets.

1978 Times 29 Apr. 13/2 Indeed Ferrier's voice, in its full richness, comes through the ancient and low-fi recording in a way that nothing else does.

1988 New Scientist 28 Jan. 73/3 Now anyone who phones the company to ask about hi-fi gets a horrid low-fi musical ditty in their ear while they wait for someone on an extension to pick up the phone.

2008 Wire Feb. 49/3 There's something about..the way everything's fed through a mass of lo-fi effect pedals, that just sounds so viscous and gummed up—so darn sludgy.

b. Unpolished, amateurish, or technologically unsophisticated, esp. as a deliberate aesthetic choice.

ΚΠ

1956 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 17 Oct. For us there were no installment plans, no television, no motels, no baseball. This low-fi existence was not on Mars. It was in Europe.

1967 AV Communication Rev. 15 312 The book's cover presents us with the same blown-up facial pattern as the jacket, but now in hi-fi black-and-white instead of low-fi silver-and-white.

1988 Guardian Weekly 3 July 25/4 The miracle was the disorganisation [of the opera performance]—the sheer showbiz daring that got 100,000 people to shell out their twenty, twenty-five or even forty-five pounds for remarkably low-fi Verdi.

1995 i-D Aug. 95/4 The lo-fi scissors-and-paste grubbiness of the magazine.

2005 B. Ryder New Bar & Club Design i. 35 More typically used as temporary construction board, this cheap material lends..[the bar] a lo-fi, utilitarian feel.

2007 N.Y. Times 20 May (T: Style Mag.) 22/3 (caption) Stylish travelers seeking lo-fi experiences are cruising cross-country in Airstream trailers.

2. Of, designating, or belonging to (a genre of) rock music deliberately recorded on basic equipment using simple production techniques, in order to achieve a raw and unsophisticated sound.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop

metal?1518

anthemic1890

Afro-Latin-American1900

sun-kissed1907

heavy1937

Latin American1937

Memphis1938

sun-drenched1943

indie1945

rockish1955

hardcore1957

doo-wop1958

middle of the road1959

Latin1962

straight-ahead1964

easy listening1965

Motown1965

funky1967

post-rock1967

rocky1967

rock-out1968

funkadelic1969

funked out1970

grungy1971

punk1971

grunge1972

Philly1972

dub1973

drum and bass1975

disco funky1976

punkish1976

reggaefied1976

Britpop1977

post-punk1977

anarcho-punk1979

rap1980

trash rock1980

crunchy1981

industrial1981

New Romantic1981

rockist1981

garage1982

hip-hop1982

thrashy1982

urban1982

Gothic1983

hip-hopping1983

beat-box1984

lo-fi1986

technoid1986

hip-house1987

acid house1988

new jack1988

old school1988

techno1988

baggy1990

banging1990

gangsta1990

filthy1991

handbaggy1991

nu skool1991

sampladelic1991

junglist1993

1986 New Musical Express 3 May Notwithstanding the inessential Velvet releases—the lo-fi Live At Max's Kansas City and the VU-only-in-name Squeeze—no home is fully furnished without 1970's Loaded.

1991 Details June 98/2 Kicking off with the glorious lo-fi rocker ‘The Wagon’, this LP goes on to mash up squalling tunes like ‘Puke Cry’ with muck like ‘Muck’.

1993 N.Y. Times 5 Sept. ii. 22/5 The northern English band the Fall has suddenly and inexplicably emerged as a major influence on a breed of lo-fi indie bands in America like Pavement.

2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 June 29/1 The Pornographers' albums..became standard-setters for smart, lo-fi modern rock.

B. n.

1. Sound reproduction less good in quality than high fidelity; = low fidelity n. at low adj. and n.² Compounds 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment

phonograph1877

gramophone1887

Victrola1905

record player1913

box1916

radio phonograph1922

phono1925

Panatrope1926

radio-gramophone1927

radiogram1929

hi-fi1938

player1948

music centre1956

lo-fi1957

stereogram1958

gram1959

mid-fi1960

stereo1964

unit audio1966

wind-up1975

1957 Pop. Sci. Mar. 119/2 You can see why a hi-fi buff speaks of low-fi in tones mingling pity with horror.

1958 Observer 15 June 14/6 For heaven's sake let us have the real Bob Cats, even in lo-fi, and let the record companies make their issues under that kind of policy.

1967 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 29 July 53 Despite Mr. Kolodin's warning of the ‘lo-fi’, we would urge the purchase of this set as a significant item in Toscanini's recorded legacy.

1970 Daily Tel. 16 Mar. 24/3 It was because of the cassette's ‘lo-fi’ that Philips first attacked the bottom end of the market.

2013 J. Hilson in H. J. Minors Music, Text & Transl. viii. 103 In strict sonic terms, hi-fi is distinguished by what Schafer calls ‘a favourable signal to noise ratio,’ whereas in lo-fi, ‘individual acoustic signals are obscured in an overdense population of sounds.’

2. A genre of rock music characterized by minimal production, giving a raw and unsophisticated sound.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of

jazz-rock1915

rockabilly1956

rockaboogie1956

hard rock1959

folk-rock1963

soft rock1965

surf rock1965

acid rock1966

raga rock1966

progressive rock1968

Christian rock1969

cock rock1970

punk1970

punk rock1970

space rock1970

swamp rock1970

techno-rock1971

glitter rock1972

grunge1973

glam-rock1974

pub rock1974

alternative rock1975

dinosaur rock1975

prog rock1976

AOR1977

New Wave1977

pomp rock1978

prog1978

anarcho-punk1979

stadium rock1979

oi1981

alt-rock1982

noise1982

noise-rock1982

trash1983

mosh1985

emo-core1986

Goth1986

rawk1987

emo1988

grindcore1989

darkwave1990

queercore1991

lo-fi1993

dadrock1994

nu metal1995

1993 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 Feb. d3 The Home version of Lo-Fi includes pots, pans, piano and acoustic guitars.

1993 Rolling Stone 14 Oct. 20/4 Alternative hipsters were embracing ‘lo fi’—minimal overdubs, CD-unfriendly sound and a general disdain for technical perfection.

1995 Rave (Brisbane) 23 Aug. 9/1 Described as the ‘ultimate garage band low-tech record company’,..[the record label Flying Nun] was pumping out lo-fi long before the two words had been put together and the sound became identifiable as hip and fashionable.

2002 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 4 July 88/1 Still a mighty popular night that showcases alternative, indie and lo-fi.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lo-fi
释义	lo-fiadj.n. Brit. /ˈləʊfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈloʊˌfaɪ/ Forms: 1900s– Lo-Fi, 1900s– lo-fi, 1900s– lo fi, 1900s– lofi, 1900s– low-fi, 1900s– low fi. Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymon: low fidelity n. at low adj. and n.² Compounds 3. Etymology: Shortened < low fidelity n. at low adj. and n.² Compounds 3, with remodelling of the second syllable after hi-fi adj. and hi-fi n. Compare lo adj. A. adj. 1. a. Designating low-quality reproduction, esp. of sound; of, relating to, or characterized by, such reproduction. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > [adjective] > quality of reproduced sound phonogenic1923 woofy1932 high fidelity1933 lo-fi1954 scratchy1961 scratchless1978 ambient1990 1954 Billboard 1 May 38/4 Should the industry permit its catalogs to be culled for supposed ‘hi-fi’ recordings, the general consumer will be led to believe that unlisted records are second-grade issues, or, let us say, ‘low-fi’. 1957 Musical Times 98 614/2 What is hi-fi in America is apt to sound lo-fi on English gramophones. 1968 Which? Oct. 312/1 You can buy your hi-fi equipment one piece at a time, and play it through the ‘lo-fi’ parts of, say, your old radio. 1970 J. Earl How to choose Tuners & Amplifiers v. 100 The medium-frequency a.m. system is..possibly adequate for ‘lo-fi’ reception on small transistor sets. 1978 Times 29 Apr. 13/2 Indeed Ferrier's voice, in its full richness, comes through the ancient and low-fi recording in a way that nothing else does. 1988 New Scientist 28 Jan. 73/3 Now anyone who phones the company to ask about hi-fi gets a horrid low-fi musical ditty in their ear while they wait for someone on an extension to pick up the phone. 2008 Wire Feb. 49/3 There's something about..the way everything's fed through a mass of lo-fi effect pedals, that just sounds so viscous and gummed up—so darn sludgy. b. Unpolished, amateurish, or technologically unsophisticated, esp. as a deliberate aesthetic choice. ΚΠ 1956 Yuma (Arizona) Daily Sun 17 Oct. For us there were no installment plans, no television, no motels, no baseball. This low-fi existence was not on Mars. It was in Europe. 1967 AV Communication Rev. 15 312 The book's cover presents us with the same blown-up facial pattern as the jacket, but now in hi-fi black-and-white instead of low-fi silver-and-white. 1988 Guardian Weekly 3 July 25/4 The miracle was the disorganisation [of the opera performance]—the sheer showbiz daring that got 100,000 people to shell out their twenty, twenty-five or even forty-five pounds for remarkably low-fi Verdi. 1995 i-D Aug. 95/4 The lo-fi scissors-and-paste grubbiness of the magazine. 2005 B. Ryder New Bar & Club Design i. 35 More typically used as temporary construction board, this cheap material lends..[the bar] a lo-fi, utilitarian feel. 2007 N.Y. Times 20 May (T: Style Mag.) 22/3 (caption) Stylish travelers seeking lo-fi experiences are cruising cross-country in Airstream trailers. 2. Of, designating, or belonging to (a genre of) rock music deliberately recorded on basic equipment using simple production techniques, in order to achieve a raw and unsophisticated sound. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [adjective] > qualities of pop metal?1518 anthemic1890 Afro-Latin-American1900 sun-kissed1907 heavy1937 Latin American1937 Memphis1938 sun-drenched1943 indie1945 rockish1955 hardcore1957 doo-wop1958 middle of the road1959 Latin1962 straight-ahead1964 easy listening1965 Motown1965 funky1967 post-rock1967 rocky1967 rock-out1968 funkadelic1969 funked out1970 grungy1971 punk1971 grunge1972 Philly1972 dub1973 drum and bass1975 disco funky1976 punkish1976 reggaefied1976 Britpop1977 post-punk1977 anarcho-punk1979 rap1980 trash rock1980 crunchy1981 industrial1981 New Romantic1981 rockist1981 garage1982 hip-hop1982 thrashy1982 urban1982 Gothic1983 hip-hopping1983 beat-box1984 lo-fi1986 technoid1986 hip-house1987 acid house1988 new jack1988 old school1988 techno1988 baggy1990 banging1990 gangsta1990 filthy1991 handbaggy1991 nu skool1991 sampladelic1991 junglist1993 1986 New Musical Express 3 May Notwithstanding the inessential Velvet releases—the lo-fi Live At Max's Kansas City and the VU-only-in-name Squeeze—no home is fully furnished without 1970's Loaded. 1991 Details June 98/2 Kicking off with the glorious lo-fi rocker ‘The Wagon’, this LP goes on to mash up squalling tunes like ‘Puke Cry’ with muck like ‘Muck’. 1993 N.Y. Times 5 Sept. ii. 22/5 The northern English band the Fall has suddenly and inexplicably emerged as a major influence on a breed of lo-fi indie bands in America like Pavement. 2004 N.Y. Times Mag. 13 June 29/1 The Pornographers' albums..became standard-setters for smart, lo-fi modern rock. B. n. 1. Sound reproduction less good in quality than high fidelity; = low fidelity n. at low adj. and n.² Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > recording or reproducing sound or visual material > sound recording and reproduction > sound recording or reproducing equipment > [noun] > record-playing equipment phonograph1877 gramophone1887 Victrola1905 record player1913 box1916 radio phonograph1922 phono1925 Panatrope1926 radio-gramophone1927 radiogram1929 hi-fi1938 player1948 music centre1956 lo-fi1957 stereogram1958 gram1959 mid-fi1960 stereo1964 unit audio1966 wind-up1975 1957 Pop. Sci. Mar. 119/2 You can see why a hi-fi buff speaks of low-fi in tones mingling pity with horror. 1958 Observer 15 June 14/6 For heaven's sake let us have the real Bob Cats, even in lo-fi, and let the record companies make their issues under that kind of policy. 1967 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 29 July 53 Despite Mr. Kolodin's warning of the ‘lo-fi’, we would urge the purchase of this set as a significant item in Toscanini's recorded legacy. 1970 Daily Tel. 16 Mar. 24/3 It was because of the cassette's ‘lo-fi’ that Philips first attacked the bottom end of the market. 2013 J. Hilson in H. J. Minors Music, Text & Transl. viii. 103 In strict sonic terms, hi-fi is distinguished by what Schafer calls ‘a favourable signal to noise ratio,’ whereas in lo-fi, ‘individual acoustic signals are obscured in an overdense population of sounds.’ 2. A genre of rock music characterized by minimal production, giving a raw and unsophisticated sound. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > pop music > [noun] > rock > types of jazz-rock1915 rockabilly1956 rockaboogie1956 hard rock1959 folk-rock1963 soft rock1965 surf rock1965 acid rock1966 raga rock1966 progressive rock1968 Christian rock1969 cock rock1970 punk1970 punk rock1970 space rock1970 swamp rock1970 techno-rock1971 glitter rock1972 grunge1973 glam-rock1974 pub rock1974 alternative rock1975 dinosaur rock1975 prog rock1976 AOR1977 New Wave1977 pomp rock1978 prog1978 anarcho-punk1979 stadium rock1979 oi1981 alt-rock1982 noise1982 noise-rock1982 trash1983 mosh1985 emo-core1986 Goth1986 rawk1987 emo1988 grindcore1989 darkwave1990 queercore1991 lo-fi1993 dadrock1994 nu metal1995 1993 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 3 Feb. d3 The Home version of Lo-Fi includes pots, pans, piano and acoustic guitars. 1993 Rolling Stone 14 Oct. 20/4 Alternative hipsters were embracing ‘lo fi’—minimal overdubs, CD-unfriendly sound and a general disdain for technical perfection. 1995 Rave (Brisbane) 23 Aug. 9/1 Described as the ‘ultimate garage band low-tech record company’,..[the record label Flying Nun] was pumping out lo-fi long before the two words had been put together and the sound became identifiable as hip and fashionable. 2002 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 4 July 88/1 Still a mighty popular night that showcases alternative, indie and lo-fi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1954
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