@deep_333 I agree. It's hard to get diverse populations to get along much less see eye to eye. But that's pretty much what this country is about and supposedly makes it great and a place diverse peoples want to live in...all that melting pot stuff. Maybe we are doomed to fail in the end, or maybe we truly are "great" and make it so. Nothing lasts forever. THat much is for sure.
Things we cannot be bothered by anymore
Occurred to me today that I have dropped stuff that I cannot just be bothered by anymore, and wondering what some of you out there have let go of as well
Me (lean mostly into analog)
- Lifting a tonearm lever to cue a platter - no more - years off my life
- Carbon brushes, cart cleans with every spin or two - years off my life
- Ugly racks that look like ones I had in 10th grade, though cost 20x more - out
- Listening at low volume levels to gauge audiophile purity
- A/B'ing streaming platforms
Finale - $50 audiophile pressings "remastered from the original master tapes" that sound like sanitized cheese spread - magic gone, warped, drop-outed, bubbled, and gain-whacked (there are exceptions for sure)
How about you?
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@carlso63 I think most people would agree about the intrusion of politics into so many aspects of life. I blame it on the voters. Stop voting for control-freak, narcissistic, far right and far left politicians who are unable to process and address the views of 90% of society. Vote for throughtful and maybe even compassionate centrists/moderates willing to listen to more points of view. That’s the only way. Otherwise we will all live in the h-lll we ourselves as voters create trying to always stick it to the other guy and get our own way, no matter what the effect it may have on others or society as a whole. Very selfish!!!!!! I guess it's simply a part (luckily not the whole) of human nature that we should all learn to get a handle on.
Cheers!
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@hilde45 +1. |
Tubes. Very 2@th century! |