This judgemental prick doesn't follow celebrities.
In fact, this annoying drivel is exactly what I'm talking about. Why do people care about celebrities like this? She's about as useful as mammary glands on a bull.
Pharos, I had a discussion on a similar vain with a work college, tv was more intellectual in the past , but is that because that's what the bbc thought it should be, but the majority just don't want that. I'd like to watch an intellectual debate, or weekend world ( or was it world in action - with a Mountain theme tune ),or Horizon, or QED, but it seems the majority want to watch someone who claims to be a celebrity ( I only know 1 in 10 ) making a fool of themselves because they have no dignity.
cnc drill test is an investigation on plausibility of audible change? I thought listening test would qualify for that but I guess some people have different ideas.
Doesn't it stand to reason that if the metal is changed that it may sound differently? Again, not saying that it does. Only that it is certainly possible. If there is a physical change to the metal than it sounding different is plausible. That is all I am saying.
Without any conduction test? At least that should've been done to call it plausible.
Indeed, people are hypnotized, staring at a glowing screen.
That's why cellphone use, among other glowing screens, has become a major player in mind controls.
Mix that in with some drugs, and you've now got willing puppets.
"Keep 'em entertained, keep 'em hooked, they won't know what the hell is really going on around them" (until it's too late")
Well if surrounded by active students you were likely in higher education, which was a smaller %age of society all crammed together and able to find people who shared their world view whilst spending govt beer tokens (sadly you have to pay it back nowdays). Back in the real world it looks different when you are all stirred in.
I made/make sure my children learn to question things. 6 in 6 billion won't make much difference, but it's a start 😀
I have no idea. You'd have to be a moron to tolerate it for more than 30 seconds.
wiseoldtech;6514471 Mix that in with some drugs said:
Yeah no one did drugs in the 60s. And of the ones who did, none of them are senators now...
Turn off your mind.
Relax and float downstream...
There was a stoical and austere culture when I was a child about study, wisdom, and 'getting on in the world', this enforced by stern looks and dismissive condescension, perhaps as a result of the parents' defence mechanisms against the same pressures they felt. It could be very destructive but there was an essence of validity to the ethic.
The BBC was also of this ethos in the 50s and 60s, and with a massive Avant guard rebelliousness in some of its programmes, often from Oxbridge freshers willing to poke fun in quite penetrative ways at orthodoxy.
Early on in education the use of visual media was frowned on as an easy cop-out option, but we now realise just how much of an aid it can be. The BBC now transmits much in the form of factual knowledge on BBC4, but it is like learning all one's tables from 13X to 167X; of little value to life and personally politically of no significance or benefit IMO. How much of the history of the British monarchs can one take? What about teaching us something useful like how to save energy, understand language structure, the elements of music, use the stock market, or apply maths to our own domestic economics for eg.
With an incomplete personal development I now look to TV to educate me, and I select accordingly as best I can, but so much is to me dross. I gave up soaps a long long time ago, and now it seems they attempt to rather patronisingly educate me in the obvious. I think you are referring to Weekend World with Brian Walden - Mountain's Nantucket Sleighride.
The young wanting to be a celebrity is a reflection of a greater tendency, that of wanting wealth, glamour, and to avoid anything which is associated with dirt or back-room isolation, and geeky stuff including maths.
I watched Big Brother because I wanted to see the cultural norms which prevailed; manners, sensitivity, and any subject matter under discussion, and I was shocked at some of the behaviour.
Focus adjustment.
Plenty of examples of audiophile snake oil salesmen still making a buck, but what does the legitimate audio industry look like these days? Particularly for the smaller players - like guys who make high quality stuff in their garage. Is anyone making a living doing honest, small scale work these days? My guess is that the masses are spending their money on soundbars and Google Nest or whatever. However, the vintage audio gear market seems to be going out of control.
Plenty of examples of audiophile snake oil salesmen still making a buck, but what does the legitimate audio industry look like these days? Particularly for the smaller players - like guys who make high quality stuff in their garage. Is anyone making a living doing honest, small scale work these days? My guess is that the masses are spending their money on soundbars and Google Nest or whatever. However, the vintage audio gear market seems to be going out of control.
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I think some outfits still give me hope. For example
Okto Research
Now I happen to be potentially in the market for just such a product and the price, whilst not a change down the back of the sofa level is not silly. I don't 'need' one but in my case would add a lacking convenience due to limitations in other parts of my system. Any performance enhancements would be entirely due to my fault with gain staging 😀
Okto Research
Now I happen to be potentially in the market for just such a product and the price, whilst not a change down the back of the sofa level is not silly. I don't 'need' one but in my case would add a lacking convenience due to limitations in other parts of my system. Any performance enhancements would be entirely due to my fault with gain staging 😀
Thanks to anesthesia by chemtrails we won't notice the big needles. We just have to see the big picture!
Almost invisible. Do any big box stores still sell actual hi fi components any more? All I see are sound bars, subwoofers and tiny Bluetooth speakers. I think Walmart sells one Sony receiver on the low end for around $150.
There's stuff on the web. But it's not always easy to know what you're buying.
You can still fix the old units. New stuff with multiple layer boards and surface mount components are a lot harder to fix. Plus, they're not worth it.
SMD rework is a breeze with the right tools. Use a heat gun and tweezers and chips lift off in seconds. Add some flux and plop a new one right down. Done. Hot tweezers are the other great tool. Removing DIP parts is huge pain unless you buy the expensive cutters to snip off each pin.
While my last shop was based and survived on TV and VCR service, along with the occasional audio repairs, I saw the train coming with vintage restorations.
The market for new products, both audio and video, I watched it slide downward in quality.
This comes from being a long-time service tech and seeing the changes over time (cutbacks in quality, reliability, etc).
Since I knew the vintage stuff was way better built, and even stylish compared to the boring modern stuff, I started focusing on that part of service.
I sensed a market out there, and not thinking of greed, I knew I had to supply my skills to those people, who appreciated it.
Besides, I personally adore the vintage era stuff, and appreciate it.
With some simple advertising, (which I still have going on the internet), the vintage restoration business flourished beyond my dreams.
It got to the point about 15 years ago that I became backlogged, booked up, and had to put people on a waiting list, which they patiently abliged.
The shop simply couldn't hold all the influx I was getting.
Five years ago, I had requests sitting, waiting, over a year!
Console stereos, vintage receivers, record players/turntables, radios of all types, boomboxes, you name it, they all eventually got done, as well as the current crappy tv's, dvd's, cd's that seemed to break down right after warrenty.
Now, retired, I limit things to my own pace, I deserve to "coast" my way to the grave, I've done my job, and done it well.
Nevertheless, my soldering station, computer, and file cabinet of extensive service manuals are never fully cold or ignored.
My customers thank-you emails, Christmas cards, etc., all remind me that I provided a much needed service.
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