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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thecarpathion. I seen you unloading that poor bigfoot in the middle of the night, how dare you, you've been caught man!
I don't think they (the Russians) have to lower the microphone that far to hear what they recorded. Sound travels through a hole, you should know this as an audiophile.
isochronism, you could be correct as the military has forgot to mention they own a few of them(UFOs) I wonder who gave them this advanced technology?
Mahgistor just because you don't believe in hell doesn't mean its going to cease to exist for your convenience.

Covid 19 ( maybe the grand illusion) but many are not coping very well with the lock down. Every where there are groups of people defying safety measures of this virus and naturally the news increases coverage of these areas and are reporting more cases of Covid 19. The food supply is slowly diminishing because a few reported cases in food packing plants as well as meat packing plants, shutting these operations down for safety in some states.( Henry Kissinger) said if you control the food supply you can control the entire world The economy can not take too many more business closures especially small businesses.  If the entire economy is destroyed each and every one of us are going to be negatively impacted in ways you can't imagine, making the Great Depression look like a walk in the park, lets hope this does not happen. I would much favor opening all business but practicing safety.


Then i hope you will teach me..... I will go with you for a mate on pure argentinian soil.... :)
Not yet.
I just got done unloading the last bigfoot.
Ah, astral projection!
I think if I could do that, I would project myself to Argentina for a cold mate...
phd, the UFOs or UAPs are real, as many are seen. The truth is that they are from HERE.
For the Russian hell pit it is a myth...

Hell tough is an objective creation of the mind.... Like heaven.... :)


 I thought you were sleeping thecarpathian? Perhaps i speak to your astral body?


Yes, my friend.
I know they are now UAP’s.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena...
Flying saucers is much more common when discussing such things...

By the way, I wonder where the Russian scientists found a microphone that could withstand 2000° f and 9 miles of microphone cable.
Maybe it fell out of a UAP...

Flying saucers are not flying saucers anymore.... if someone dare to read a little bit.... :)

The universe is not think by clever men now like inhabited by  any other consciousness...

Our civilization is very primitive.... We dont even recognize other intelligence on our earth....
Well I also believe in flying saucers. We have several that maintain the same trajectory in the sky (for years) and sometimes when one is disturbed like from fireworks it will fly directly over (at roof top) in our neighborhood. They were large and orange. Note we live very close to two military bases. I talked to the clerk at a local gas station about this and he said he would like to believe but he has his doubts. Until he stepped out of the building and was having a smoke with his family it was then they all seen it for themselves, totally freaked them out and he told me about it later.
There are many things in this world we don't understand but have substance. One day the truth about this and many other things will be revealed to us. Until that day we we can label it a conspiracy theory.
Maghister the secret sauce is logic + facts. Either alone does not work.
logic + facts are not enough.... What is a fact?

The heart + brain is more of a beginning....Because fact are always at the end of some perspective view.... The heart  will help with what is not yet a "fact"....Faith is from the heart....
My hero was (he died last year) one of my History professors at Cal who became my best friend. He was the most intelligent, kindest, generous, empathetic person I have ever known. He was, before he became a professor, a speech writer for Hubert Humphrey, the great liberal. As for living heroes, I would have to say Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a great humanitarian.
phd...I think I'll pass on that, but I am going to be respectful and acknowledge that you have a right to your beliefs. We have taken this discussion into a new territory and one in which I am completely unqualified to bring any light to the subject. I am agnostic and can't for the life of me see how anyone could consider themselves anything else. I don't know the truth about religion and the existence of God and no one else knows it either. It's all based on faith, not measurable science. I will never tell someone who believes that they are wrong because I have no way of knowing. Pasqual's Wager was based on his belief that you should try to believe and live your life as if you did. If you're wrong you didn't lose anything and led a good life. If you're right you are rewarded with everlasting life in Heaven. Remember the poster in Fox Maulder's room on The X Files? It said I want to believe. I want to believe, I just can't get past that evidence problem. More power to you.
Maghister the secret sauce is logic + facts. Either alone does not work. 
A brain without heart is only sand...

A heart without brain is only water...

Add the 2 and flower will flourish.....
Gotta go, Elvis just landed in a flying saucer and asked me to help him unload this crate full of Bigfoots. Or is that Bigfeet?
A group of Russian scientists went to Siberia
I know this story....

I dont want to disturb your faith, but only to put it on a higher level than actual political lies from all parties...

Read the" Heaven and Hell" by Swedenborg....It will give you a better first idea about that....

Swedenborg was one of the greatest scientist of his times....And a Mystic who speak with angels...

Read it... The book cost peanuts.....

All european geniuses read it even Kant who dislike him for sure....
Maghasitor, if you don't believe, it's all about choices and I don't think any one could survive standing directly in his presence, too powerful no one knows what he (God) exactly looks like. That is why he sent his son Jesus.

Let me tell you a short but true story. A group of Russian scientists went to Siberia to check out a large hole in the ground. They lowered a microphone deep in this hole and it was recording. What they heard was astonishing. It clearly sounded like millions of people screaming in agony. Then a large winged evil creature surfaced from this hole and flew off. They were so frightened that most of the scientists packed and left. Later interviewed one of the men said he never believed in God but now he sure believes in Hell. This audio and testimony can be seen on the internet at the time. I watched it and it woke me up.
«Truth dont need prophets, only your  brain with your  heart my dear» -Groucho Marx
"Beware the false prophets, for they are the Devil trying to lure you away from the truth..."
:)

I was a great admirer of Spock, before i  could understand that logic only  make you insane....

:)

Johnny Cash try to give something to the world at least.... A great artist and a man....
My childhood heroes were Professor John  Robinson, Mr. Spock and Johnny Cash. 
At least 1 of them was real. 😉
When i was young i was looking for someone i could and would admire and that would guide me....

Pick the right one, not a celebrity for sure, they are almost all idiotic....Pick a true great man in any field except politic....


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 someone cannot process the world situation it is like he dont live really this time and moment in history.... Most live like animals without knowing who they are and why....

They react to order, stimulus, conditioning, and slogans.....Like dogs or rats in a laboratory....

Awake yourself and listen to no one....
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.
They are young and dont read books only news....News are made for slow crowd brain and dont speak about anything serious.....They dont even speak about the US, because they dont speak about the world situation then how can they speak about the US?

At best people replace fake news with their faked brain.... The words come from the head....This is pitiful....

Why not trying a real hard book?

« Only reading can free ourself, no gun can make that »- Anonymus

« Reading is like making love, it is hard the first time»-Anonymus
Love everyone but dont agree with any crowds....

:)

Dont trust prophets especially the religious one....


God dont have a beard and dont spoke, especially about politics....

If inner voices speaks about politics it is not God nor your inner voice, it is hallucinations....

When Ramanujan listened to his goddess she speaks about prime numbers, it is a bit more serious for a god or a goddess...






cal91, I'm not being facetious, I'm repeating what Mark Taylor said in one of his videos. He is a retired firefighter who wrote the Trump Prophecies and predicted Trump (God's chosen one) would win the presidency years before 2016. God spoke to him and said that he is not angry with the general population of this country but rather with the leadership and the churches. It is your choice to agree with this man but he comes across as a regular but honest man. Check him out.
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....
Hi, mahgister!
Hope you are staying well and enjoying your system.
Your musical knowledge is quite impressive...
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....
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.
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!
@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.


mapman you're right...it's useless. I'm going to go listen to Mozart's 40th.
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?
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....