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High Fidelity (magazine)

High Fidelity
CategoriesAudio
FrequencyMonthly
Circulation327,000 at closure in 1989
FounderMilton B. Sleeper
Founded1951
First issueApril 1951 (1951-04)
Final issueJuly 1989
Company
  • Audiocom, Inc. (1951–1957)
  • Billboard Publications, Inc. (1957–1974)
  • ABC Consumer Magazines (1974–1989)
CountryUnited States
Based inGreat Barrington, Massachusetts
LanguageEnglish
ISSN0018-1455
For other uses, see High fidelity (disambiguation).

High Fidelity — often abbreviated HiFi — was an American magazine that was published from April 1951 until July 1989 and was a source of information about high fidelity audio equipment, video equipment, audio recordings, and other aspects of the musical world, such as music history, biographies, and anecdotal stories by or about noted performers.

Great Barrington, Massachusetts-based High Fidelity magazine was original founded as a quarterly publication in 1951 by audiophile Milton B. Sleeper.[1][2][3][4] One of the first editors was Charles Fowler.[1] Later, the publication became a monthly and Fowler became the publisher.

In 1957, High Fidelity and its sister publication Audiocraft were acquired by Billboard Publications, Inc., when it purchased High Fidelity's parent company, Audiocom, Inc. from Audiocom's president and publisher Charles Fowler.[5][6]

After 16 years of ownership, Billboard sold High Fidelity in 1974, along with its sister publication Modern Photography, to the magazine division of the American Broadcasting Companies for $9 million.[7][8] At the time of the sale, High Fidelity and Modern Photography had circulations of 260,000 and 470,000 respectively.

Until 1981, its editorial offices were located in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. In January of that year, its parent company, ABC Consumer Magazines, began moving the publication's operations to New York City, a process that was completed in about a year. In 1989, ABC sold High Fidelity and its sister publication Modern Photography to Diamandis Communications (now Hachette Filipacchi Media), which merged its subscriber list with that of Stereo Review magazine.[9][10] (Stereo Review transformed into the present Sound and Vision magazine in 2000.) High Fidelity and Modern Photography had circulations of 327,000 and 689,000 respectively by the time these magazines were shut down by Diamandis.

  1. ^ a b "Ad for High-Fidelity magazine". Popular Mechanics. Vol. 96, no. 6. December 1951. p. 35. ISSN 0032-4558.
  2. ^ Anderson, Tim Jay (1998). Lost in sound: Cultural-material issues in American recorded music and sound, 1948-1964 (Ph.D.). Northwestern University. pp. 305–306. OCLC 50420754. ProQuest 304447254. Again, take for example the number of feature articles that High Fidelity ran in its first few years of publication. As the first commercial magazine printed for the pleasures of the amateur and professional audiophile, High-Fidelity was established in the summer of 1951 with the intent of being a quarterly, but within a few years demand was great enough to force it through the stage of bi-monthly publication, and finally into monthly editions. As the editor, Milton B. Sleeper, claimed, High Fidelity was "devoted to your interests in 'the sense of hearing,'" emphasizing topics ranging from in-home record audio equipment, records worth mentioning and, of course, FM radio.
  3. ^ Marshall, Christy & Selvin, Barbara (May 25, 1989). "Diamandis Buys, Will Fold 2 Mags". Newsday (New York ed.). p. 51. ProQuest 405751187. High Fidelity was started by a radio and audio aficionado named Milton Sleeper. ABC bought Modern Photography, High Fidelity and Musical America, from Billboard Publications in Manhattan in 1974 for $12 million. ABC is keeping Musical America.
  4. ^ Ziesmann, Jeffrey K. "Milton B Sleeper". American Radio History.
  5. ^ "High Fidelity Magazines Join Billboard Fold". Billboard. Vol. 69, no. 43. November 25, 1957. pp. 1, 25. ISSN 0006-2510. ProQuest 1040136836. Billboard Publishing Company bought Audiocom, Inc., owner of High Fidelity and Audiocraft. Charles Fowler president and publisher
  6. ^ "2 Music Papers Merge: High Fidelity and Billboard Will Retain Present Format". New York Times. November 27, 1957. p. 26. ProQuest 114075888.
  7. ^ "ABC Plans to Purchase 2 Consumer Magazines As Base of New Unit". Wall Street Journal. June 21, 1974. p. 13. ProQuest 133887581.
  8. ^ "Media Briefs". Los Angeles Times. June 23, 1974. p. E10. ProQuest 157482978.
  9. ^ "Diamandis Acquires 2 Magazines". New York Times. May 25, 1989.
  10. ^ "Hachette Unit Buys High Fidelity, Modern Photography Subscriber Lists". Associated Press. May 24, 1989.

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