CAN WE AUDIOPHILES DO OUR PART?


So we're all tired of hearing about nothing but Covid-19 (or, as I term it, the C-Plague). What can we do, as audiophiles, to help with all this.
I was amazed, and delighted, when I went to the Cardas website to see that they are doing their part. Go to their website and you'll see their director, Angela Cardas, wearing a mask. If you click on the Cardas Nautilus logo in the upper left corner, you'll see pictures of people there in the factory making masks with sewing machines. I called the company to congratulate them, and spoke with a woman named Darla, who said it was their way, during this economic slump, to keep their employees working and also their way of trying to "do our part."
I'm not writing all this to advertise Cardas products. They are a very good company, but trust your ears, not anything I write, when it comes to buying their products. They do get credit, however, for helping me come to a realization that pushed me in the right direction. I called a woman I am friends with, who is 85 years old and is a good seamstress, to suggest she start making masks. She already was--and is. By phone she has organized several other women to do the same, and right now they are needing more material and elastic. I managed to gather about 50 pounds of material and am starting to gather elastic while also getting more material. But I don't sew. I can't help out with that. Any ideas as to what we--all of us who are good with our ears and focused with our budgets--can do to help out in other ways?

I realize this is an odd topic to bring to an audio forum, but it was a very socially responsible audio company that got me to thinking about it, and frankly I believe I should be socially responsible enough to do what I can to get other people to thinking about it. While also being open to other people's ideas about ways someone like me who is "just an audiophile" can help.

Thank you, in advance, for any and all ideas on this.



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Hey devilboy, in the interest of not being obedient and compliant as you fear so badly, I am not going to listen to anybody’s political diatribes, including yours.

Just the facts....

Cheers!
You can wire from phone ( or tablet or other home computer) to digital input on amp. Connectors needed would depend on cellphone/streamer device type and digital input types available for amp. Usb most likely from a smart phone.
Another Easy way is use a Bluetooth adapter.
Google search should turn up wiring options from a specific phone type to a specific amp to be used.




Easy way to start streaming is from smartphone that most already have these days.
Cal91 I would save your energy. Nobody with any choice who has totally dissed the significance of the pandemic that has affected pretty much the entire world to various degrees to date is going to admit they were wrong. Too embarrassing....
If Trump loses, it’s going to be because he deserves to lose.  Plain and simple. 
This is a sick country where a pandemic involving a proven highly contagious Virus that has already killed record numbers of people and physically impacted many more is still discussed as a political not a public health issue. Facts are inconvenient to some.
I know. Some are more comfortable than others with embarrassment and spinning alternate realities out of desperation to justify their cause when that is all they have.

This thread is a huge embarrassment for audiophiles who are already a largely discredited lot.  
Maghister the secret sauce is logic + facts. Either alone does not work. 
My childhood heroes were Professor John  Robinson, Mr. Spock and Johnny Cash. 
At least 1 of them was real. 😉
They also often have great disdain for being truly educated and the success that often brings for those who endeavor to learn and apply their knowledge constructively.
If one can’t process the news for what its worth rather than fear it, I don’t know about books. Reading and synthesis of actual knowledge is hard work.
Well GK I agree. It’s clear now that leaving it up to individuals alone to do the right thing does not work in cases like a pandemic where what each does or does not do has effect on others.

Science and facts has to determine what is or is not done. Individual opinion won’t cut it.

Also gotta note that Bob Dylan does not say that at the end of any of his records I have heard but if that is your opinion then that’s a different story. 😌

Oh and hopefully as things move forward we will be well guided by both science and facts not opinions or desires of any one person. 
This a lose/lose scenario. Health versus economy. Individuals are affected differently and will have different views on what’s best for themselves and others.


We are where we are currently ie better off than otherwise because of the preventive measures taken.

You can’t look at the results of the preventive measures then say those measures were not needed.

We should all now understand why blind libertarianism does not work in cases like pandemics where what everyone does affects everyone.

As things open back up we will see how things go. Everyone knows more now than they did when things started and that is the big difference that hopefully moves us forward and not backwards from here.