Perfect Path Total Contact no longer?

For the record of course as OP well knows, I am not an “anti tweaker”. I’ve done quite a few of my own. Some work really well some not so much and everything in-between. I treat each case individually based on the specific merits and of course anything that helps tie a specific result to a specific part of the system.

Life is basically just a bunch of tweaks. 

But in any case the fact stands that it’s the whole system that produces the end result. There can be things in there that do nothing different or special which just means the system sounds as good or bad as it would have otherwise.


It can’t help anyone’s case to claim otherwise and attribute the end result solely to whichever part happens to strike one’s fancy for whatever reason at any particular time.

Of course one could listen to a system and drop dead in awe but to attribute that solely to the tweaks would still require a huge leap of faith. 

Other systems with out similar tweaks could still even deliver a more fatal blow possibly even for less. 

One should avoid jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions.

BE alert for the campaign of confusion that we will be subjected to continuously until November in order to distract from facts. Nothing negative or harmful to fearless leader’s image will ever be admitted to or responsibility taken by the current crew in the WH. No blame for ANYTHING will EVER be admitted. Nothing will change. Just more continuous marketing hype to obscure the facts which is all fearless leader knows. All lies. Some either are OK with that or merely continue to buy the BS being sold to them like total dopes.

@reubent Murray. KY 1983-85 while at Murray State in the Geosciences Grad program studying Satellite Remote Sensing and Digital Cartography at their then-state-of-the-art Mid Atlantic Remote Sensing Center (MARC) facility.

Loved it there.  Great place and great people.

Hey @djones where in western Kentucky?

I was in Murray KY two years.  Huntsville Al for 4 back in the Reagan years.  I imagine even Land between the Lakes is off limits currently. 

Yep I was a poor grad student and that 5 pound block of cheese every month made a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches.
To make up for it, now 35 years later I am still gainfully employed as a result (knock on wood) and don’t even qualify for any pandemic relief ( not that I’m complaining).

Our neighborhood had a virtual happy hour with social distancing outside  in one of the courts the other weekend. Very nice! Distance makes the heart grow fonder as they say. Don’t fink on me now!

OP I went to Grad school in Western Kentucky.  Lived there for 2 years.   One year in a trailer park with $75 rent living on 5 pound blocks of cheese.  It’s a wonderful place to be in many ways, even more so probably these days. I think you would like it there.

Ironically, if one want’s to be mostly free, the only practical approach is  to isolate yourself off-the-grid in a cabin in the woods somewhere. Lots of people do it. I saw it on TV.  Interesting stuff.  Gotta figure a way to run my hifi there though.  Will need an efficient amp. Or maybe just headphones....