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Your "Many Worlds" Audio System?
Are the advocates for the primacy of audio measurements for things like cables and wires actually measuring runs of music streaking through the conductors, or are they measuring simple signals? I have seen graphs on this site purporting to show m... 
AI and the future of music
Indeed mimicry is part and parcel of the creative process if it is used to absorb and then to recreate, so AI just by recyling mimicry can bring novelty to the art forms. What I wonder is: can AI entities ever actually be inspired? What most both... 
AI and the future of music
@Itmandella That list of potential harms describes the harms already perpetrated on us via the invention of fast computing and the internet.  
AI and the future of music
Humans have been interacting with AI in the form of so-called "extraterrestrials" for millennia, so it's not really the case that we will suddenly be subjected to some new albatross hanging around our necks. That the ET's have been so reticent wit... 
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@jtgofish  Are Hardwood Speakers Really Bad? There is a way to make hardwood speakers that might be tractable, but the front and back baffles have to be made of MDF or ply. Correct grain orientation of the sold wood panels eliminates contrary se... 
Your "Many Worlds" Audio System?
From the first link: "As it turns out, the Schrodinger equation does predict what will happen.  The wave will become entangled in the waves of the quantum objects comprising the measuring device.  It will become entangled with the environment, ju... 
Your "Many Worlds" Audio System?
The double slit experiment encompasses electrons as well.  
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Klipsch Solid Wood Cabinets This may explain the CF solid wood cabinet I saw on Ebay.  
AI and the future of music
Being someone who has had a lot of truck with "mind machines" employing orgonite, rodin coil wrapped crystals, and square wave generators I can aver as to the reality of making people ill or weirded out by invisible EMF’s configured a certain way.... 
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I am not sure if it was the CF 4 or an earlier number. I was a professional high-end furniture maker for 15 years and know what I am looking at. The Ebay seller who had the CF listed provided a photo of the interior of the cabinet which showed mor... 
AI and the future of music
One of the scarier potentials of AI is that it might discover the utility of creating electromagnetic fields to influence wetware. It may already be doing so.  
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Sophia Electric KT88  
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@jtgofish I wouldn't try to build a solid wood speaker cabinet - the kit or plan speakers are no doubt engineered from more uniform materials such as mdf or ply. However, I would perhaps use fine woods for corner accents. I do have some very good... 
Build a Faraday cage around your equipment.
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Effects Of Power Cords On Electrostatic Speakers
"So many aspects of audio are unimportant until you hear them… then you just cannot un-hear them." Audiogon quote of the week.