In the year 2000, British director Stephen Frears turned the novel into a Hollywood comedy starring John Cusack and a relatively unknown Jack Black (of Tenacious D fame) in a supporting role. It turned out to be a massive commercial success and ranked on top of global bestselling lists for years to come. In 1995, British author Nick Hornby, who is also a pop music critic for „The New Yorker“, published his very first novel named High Fidelity, in which he dissects these modern relationships with pop music analogies. Fidelity, however, is also one of the defining pillars of modern relationshops among human beings. Its opposite is therefore „lo-fi“, or „low fidelity“, indicating a radical drop in audio quality. It is the abbreviated form of „High Fidelity“, which basically means that the oscilliations of sound are maximized to the fullest extent. The expression „hi-fi“ is commonly known to be used in terms of sound engineering.
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