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Hi-fi system
| £1199 | whf.cm/SystemOne
Although Aristotle is widely thought to have introduced the concept of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts (an idea adopted in the 20th century by the Gestalt school of psychology), it is perhaps most poignantly explained in the 2010 movie Flipped, based on Wendelin Van Draanen’s 2001 novel of the same name.
When Richard Baker utters “A painting is more than the sum of its parts. A cow by itself is just a cow, a meadow by itself is just grass, flowers… and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but you put them all together… and it can be magic,” he could easily be talking about music, dance, opera or the human experience. And so it is with hi-fi – your system is so much more than a collection of cold, inanimate
