It's the end of the fucking world!
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Yesyes3000
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The difference between civilization and barbarism is three days without food....
MICHI-CAN
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To be honest. It was only awesome until the mid 80's. Sony'a ended that.“High-end” audio. It was awesome ... right until it wasn’t.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
What is the origin of that quote? Coupla years ago Google didn’t help me.
MICHI-CAN
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The three steps to close the distance. Be safe.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Oh emphatically no. Sony was ok, but the big names like Levinson and especially dCS delivered the next level. Sadly my dCS transport is fritzing and those bloody Pommie bastards have stopped supporting a $16K CD transport.
Upsampler and DAC are still banging along, but without a working transport that is a wee bit academic.
MICHI-CAN
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I am in awe of the insanity and commitment. On the other hand you are F'n NUTZ!
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
These are fossils of my money-earning days. So to have top-shelf components like that fail is karma giving me the high hard one.
I need to find a cheap CD player with a digital (RCA) out. Then the rest of the dCS stack can continue to pound out Ravel and Stravinsky ... my muses.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
In my memory:
Levinson, Krell, SOTA and a few others were the hot 80s brands. They never made it into malls or Best Buy. High-end audio massively appealed to my geek side. I could bore you to tears with the details of my analog (LP) front end.
MICHI-CAN
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Sad but true. Beyond my humble means. Music masters us all at one point in time.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I am resisting the conclusion that high-end audio, like high-end cosmetics, is an exercise in psychological manipulation, one for which I fell hook line and stinker.
It still gives me a thrill to behold this in my living room.
fucker weighs almost two mes.
Have your father talk you through it. Take advantage of all that knowledge.
playallnite
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Honestly, It's fucking pathetic.
Yesterday I went food shopping, just do happens I'm running low on toilet paper. Nothing! No TP, no paper towels. I'm forced to use old t-shirts and leaves now.
you can wipe your ass with the print version of fox news
Yesterday I went food shopping, just do happens I'm running low on toilet paper. Nothing! No TP, no paper towels. I'm forced to use old t-shirts and leaves now.
you can wipe your ass with the print version of fox news
BarnBuster
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[[sighs]] and fondly remembers the cinder block table supporting the weight of McIntosh, Thorens, Akai and Nakamichi Dragon gear driving those huge Altec studios, Bose and JBL's. Zep and Floyd never sounded so good. Miles and Charlie too. Still have the Mac's stored...somewhere with the detritus and imagined glory of the past
BarnBuster
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various references, no research on my part
"It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism." - Neil Gaiman Good Omens
"In 1906, Alfred Henry Lewis stated, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” Since then, his observation has been echoed by people as disparate as Robert Heinlein and Leon Trotsky."
WikuQuote, Good Omens: There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.
"Civilization is only “nine meals away from anarchy,” said the head of the UK’s Countryside Agency, Lord Cameron of Dillington
Maybe quoted in "Lucifer's Hammer"
JohnGlennsGarden
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PSA: Smoking cannabis and rationing food do Not go well together.