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.



baumli
mahgister...
You have the soul of a poet. Have you ever pursued that talent you possess? The guy who does the Youtube videos is named Rick Beato. He plays multiple instruments and seems very knowledgeable about music of all genres and music theory. 
Thanks for your generous appreciation.... English is not my first language, i apologize then for my lack of written ability, and i dont have any understanding of music theory.... I only listen to music, and images, colors, forms, and souls express themselves in me....

Music is the way worlds become souls, and soul become new world.... Music is truest to the truth than reality can ever will be without it....Music is in some way an image of the way reality transform itself.... Even numbers are music....Their sensible singing made visible is geometry....Colors are also the singing of a fundamental polarities between light and night and Goethe first was listening to this miraculous phenomenon between the eyes and the world.... 
All of the MAGA hat festooned racists have been proven wrong, at least based on earlier posts to this thread. A gigantic Covid upswing in the uh, "less careful" areas with hospital beds in places like Texas and Florida simply filling up. The "mask and distancing" stay at home idea actually is beating the virus in many places, as it was supposed to, and the conspiracy theory laden barflies and Redneck Nuremberg rally crowd are gettin' as sick their politics. The cancelled rally in nearby Portsmouth was likely due to a lack of available crowd, not weather related as claimed by trumpers. 
The virus is real. The apocalyptic pandemic was not.
With all due respect to au_lait, there is something he/she isn't telling us.

My heart breaks for anyone who lost a loved one or a friend to the virus. I know three people who contracted the virus and thankfully all are okay today.

I'm trying to word this as respectfully as possible but using some common sense, either he knows A LOT of people or there are some underlying conditions we don't know about. 

And somebody's going to say it so it might as well be me considering I'm probably the most hated person on this thread because I use some logic and common sense, but here it goes:

The fastest way to make the virus disappear is to move the election to next year.

  Again, I believe the virus is real but the people at risk are not the huge demographic the mainstream media fools you into believing. 


The only good news about the left winning in November is that the economy will magically open again. 
It doesn't matter, no one will have any jobs to go back to anyway.
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.
Right. The main thing we have learned from the virus is just how far they are willing to go to stop Trump from taking government back to the people. For that reason and that reason alone the whole world is shut down for a virus no worse than a normal flu season. 

It will not however go away if Trump loses. Democrats will keep stoking the fear, because that is how they're able to shut everything down. The story will simply shift from Trump saying we're winning to democrats using it to control people. Just like now, riots and BLM looting is okay, but we must regulate churches, bars and gun ranges the virus is woke and that's where it spreads. Just like now. Liberal logic: not liberal, not logical either.
OK devilboy, I'm not sure how you can make the claim of using logic and common sense. The pandemic has not been apocalyptic because of steps that were taken by many governors and mayors. Now we are seeing a surge because some governors are afraid of offending a certain person and reopened too soon against the advice of science. Even the Texas governor has admitted he made a mistake and has mandated or is considering mandating the wearing of masks. The Florida governor took a victory lap because there was no surge for two weeks after he opened. Have you looked at Florida's numbers lately? Apocalyptic implies to me some sort of existential event. I never heard anyone say the pandemic would lead to total disaster. More than 130,000 Americans have died so far and that's with the actions that many people took seriously at the beginning. Now the American frontier, individualistic attitude that nobody can tell us we have to wear masks is creating huge problems in the surge we are seeing. It seems people were willing to make sacrifices to a point and now they're tired of not being able to go to bars, restaurants, and the beach, so they're acting like the virus doesn't exist. Or they're young and have heard that they won't be affected like older people. That is an incredibly selfish attitude but if you don't see the immediate results of your actions, it's easy to pretend you didn't cause them. I'm not sure what you mean by making the virus disappear by moving the election to next year. Is that similar to the way the dreaded caravan that was bringing Leprosy and rapists and murderers across the border, suddenly became a non-issue after the elections? Explain please. I might have misunderstood you on that one. By the way, I don't hate you.
If Trump loses, it’s going to be because he deserves to lose.  Plain and simple. 
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....
I've got one more thing to say to devilboy. You questioned au_lait when he/she said (they) lost 12 acquaintances to Covid. If you don't know au_lait, you have no reason to doubt that claim. In LA, depending upon what you do and your lifestyle, it is very possible that au_lait was acquainted with 12 people who lost their lives.

Sorry mapman. I have too much energy to let some of this stuff go unanswered.
I hope that it will not take a personal tragedy to get those of you in denial to start taking this situation seriously. If you don't want to hear a rather long and sad story move on now. I tried for years to get my father to stop smoking. He was a very stubborn man and was determined he was not going to listen to others. He had terrible emphysema and suffered a massive heart attack. They were going to put a pacemaker in his chest but found that only 10% of his heart was functioning. It was just a matter of time. I was by his bedside the night before he died and he said to me: When everything is going OK, you don't hear those voices, now it's all I can hear. Remember Brady when Reagan got shot? He was a staunch conservative, strong supporter of the Second Amendment. When he got shot he had a conversion. He started working for sensible gun control.

I just retired from teaching. I used to tell my kids; some of you are standing on a railroad track and there's a train coming. People are screaming at you that there's a train coming - get off the track. But you're not listening. They can see what's coming, but you don't want to hear it. There's a train coming and you need to take it seriously. But you won't, and that makes me sad.
millercarbon.

Interesting you now state the virus is no worse than a normal flu season.
I would remind you of your past posts when at the beginning of all this, your local area in Washington state was the first hot spot.
Remember? You were screaming the exact opposite. Your posts were nothing but apocalyptic, "It’s the end of the world!" diatribes. You chastised anyone who took lightly the graveness of the virus. (Yes, that’s a word).
You stated you work in the medical field and have first hand knowledge of how serious and deadly the virus is.
Now you say, meh, no big deal.
Again interesting.
What changed for you?
MAGA hat on too tight? Or do you now just blindly believe everything your Lord and Savior Cheeto Christ says?

Tell the 130,000 US Citizens and their families that their deaths equate to nothing. The message it's given us is lockdown is the best way to prevent further suffering until a better option is available.Financial repercussions are a separate issue from the Nations health.Fake news comes from the top.
«When someone dont look for truth with all his heart, his brain dissolve in rhetorics»- Anonymus
Some of you are restoring my faith in human beings. I am discovering that there are people out there with compassion and empathy.

Some of you.
BLM?
 I do not support racists or domestic terrorists in any way, shape or form. 
In short, the left is weaponizing coronavirus and BLM for their own political gain. Whoever doesn't notice that is living in la-la land and I feel sorry for you.
The left wrings their hands anytime trigger events occur. Like I said, never let a good crisis go to waste, right?

The number of cases and the number of deaths have been greatly exaggerated. We showed just how obedient and compliant we are in a crisis situation.
This, IMO, will have very, very serious consequences for the public if socialists get in charge.
Say bye-bye to your freedoms. Say bye-bye to the first amendment. Say bye-bye to the second amendment.
Compassion drive even the animal evolution through man toward the cosmos, why compassion could not drive politic?
I think I am going to try streaming. Anybody have suggestions for a quality streamer that won't break the bank? I don't think I need a DAC since my Lyngdorf TDAI2200 is all digital that should be all the DAC I need right? Yeah, trying to re- hijack this thread.
Go streaming Vivaldi.... :)

He uplift the spirit even of Bach that copy him and integrate his melodic brain in his own music.....

I think that Vivaldi was so much talented that he never worked, his music sound like a spontaneous improvisation except few works.......Bach worked hard.... :)
@devilboy 

your statements reinforce my own thoughts about you. I will leave you with this question, “How would you like it to be born Black, with a target on your back?“
Easy way to start streaming is from smartphone that most already have these days.
As Mark Taylor said, Get you popcorn and buckle up because things are going to get crazier. The deep state (the far left) are not going to give up without one hell of a fight, because they don't want to hang for treason.
mapman...OK, the cell phone would connect to the streaming service but what about the streamer that would hook up to your amp? Thanks
@stereo5 

Wow.

Last year nine (9), unarmed blacks were killed by police officers.
In the same year, nineteen (19), unarmed whites were killed by police officers.

For the past 4 years, in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, each year twice as many whites were shot by police officers then were blacks.

Target??? Seriously? 

BLM is silent in cities across the country when black on black murders happen. If BLM really cared about black lives you would hear Al sharpton in Chicago, in New York, in Atlanta, in Los Angeles, in Detroit.

As difficult as it may be for people to hear, Black Lives Matter only cares about black lives when they are killed by white cops.

Stereo5... You really need to wake up.

And with that folks, this thread is history!
We can reduce Bach music to melodic Vivaldi+dance music , he copy it with much admiration and devotion....Then it is pure snobbery to dislike Vivaldi...
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.




I think that many people could think about why the social fabric of a society desintegrate? 

The reason why is not in the political mainstream medias of all kind in Tv or youtube.... A book or 2 will be a good idea....  :)

It is silly to makes rhetorical  wars one against  the other....
devilboy...Blacks make up about 13.4% of the population. Whites make up about 60.4% of the population. According to your statistics about twice as many unarmed Whites were killed by police as were Blacks. If it was proportional then more than 4 times more Whites w ould have been killed by police. Where's the logic and common sense?
mapman you're right...it's useless. I'm going to go listen to Mozart's 40th.
@cal91 
I knew you would mention that.

You have to go by INTERACTIONS with police officers, not number of people in the country.
It's based on percentage of interactions with police officers.

Yes blacks make up around 13% of the population but account for almost 50% of the crime.


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!
But just by me mentioning facts and statistics, you know things that can actually be proven to be real, makes me a racist. After all, the truth is hate speech in 2020.
Truth cannot be observed from a privileged personal point of view...

There is no ladder which go to paradise....

Forget politics the way it is think of now.... Think by yourself....Read true hard books....This was my way when i was young....
Hi, mahgister!
Hope you are staying well and enjoying your system.
Your musical knowledge is quite impressive...
i just drink my last drop of cold mate....

:)

i dont have any knowledge, i only express my feeling in words...

My best regards to your heart brain and soul my friend....