Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
The world underwent a drastic change around the turn of the century, the previous one. Before 1900, if you kissed a girl you intended to marry her, horses were the main mode of transportation and chances are you did the same job your father did. Then came factory jobs, automobiles, and airplanes, a world war! Mechanized warfare, people changed suddenly. Flappers and gangsters, movies! All these things had a major affect on life. I’m sure the old folks who died in the 1930’s were simply shocked at how the world had gone to the crapper.
Speed ahead to the 1980’s. The IBM 8080 computer, Apple, making home computers, I wondered what would anyone even want one for? Cable TV! Suddenly programmers weren’t saddled with the censors of the three big networks, and I went to school and learned computers, and at work I saw the Internet come to life. And at first you had to be an expert to get on it. Then, Web Browsers and search engines opened it up for the masses! And what was the first thing to happen? Porno! Yep, the Internet was flooded with porno! Could you look up useful information? No, but there was free porn everywhere you looked! A friend of mine always refers to his computer as, “The Evil Box”, and I think he’s right. Other than AOS of course, computers have been the downfall of civilization. All of a sudden it’s Ok to be a weirdo, surely you can find others just as weird online? It has become too easy to be immoral, and hide behind your avatar. And it has become very easy to bash anything you like without fear of getting your mouth mashed in. I have seen a direct correlation between the proliferation of technology and the downfall of morality. Plus a few other factors that I won’t get into right here, but it makes me wonder if we were better off before the internet?
Russell
Some very good points Russell.
I once heard someone say that if all the porn was removed from the internet there would be only one website. And it would be called "Bring back the Porn".
The internet has enabled us to do a lot of things we couldn't do before. It's also enabled us to do things we really shouldn't be doing. Anonymity gives the not-rights freedom to be as obnoxious/depraved as they like, but addressing this would also impinge on our civil liberties. What to, what to do, what to do....
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
Forget the past, it's gone. And don't worry about the future, it doesn't exist. There is only NOW.
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Deliver me from that god who's face is that of a hound, but who's skin is that of a man, as he liveth within the damned forever, digesting human hearts .....
Regards,
Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse
I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work.... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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“Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".
“You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”
"You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”
“There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”
***SMILE, BE HAPPY***
Spot on, Russell (your whole post), but in particular the bit above. I've often said that one of the worst things about the Internet was giving a 'voice' to all the loons/social misfits/dregs of society, who previously had rightfully been gagged!
Now they've become 'trolls', turning anyone who doesn't 'fit' with their world, and shows up their upbringing-induced inadequacies/insecurities, into a target of their ire. However, in terms of the bit in bold, certain chickens will soon be coming home to roost
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!
Also **SAY NO** to unjust 'vaccine passports' or certificates, which are totally incompatible with a FREE society!!!
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables
T'other system:
Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF
A/V:
LG 55" OLED, Panasonic Blu Ray, Sony a/v amp, MA Radius speakers, REL Storm sub
Forget the past, it's gone. And don't worry about the future, it doesn't exist. There is only NOW.
KICKSTARTER: ENABLING SCAMMERS SINCE 2009
I thought he was talking about Fred Basset
Current Lash Up:
TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.
While I’m on a roll, the other thing that has had severe unforeseen consequences on society was birth control. Invented and released to the public in the 1960’s, it freed all women from the shackles of child rearing. Free to pursue their passions and careers. Seemed like such a great thing! Inspired the generation of, “Free Love”, in the 60’s. But by the 1980’s new and killer STD’s were not only in the fringes of society, but anyone from any walk of life may contract some rather terrible illnesses. And the long term effect is that smart people have used birth control, while stupid people have not! And in a few short generations the stupid people outnumber the smart people by a significant margin! Before birth control, smart people and dump people procreated at the same pace, but now while smart people have confined themselves to one or two children, some even no children, the dregs of society have continued to proliferate at the old rates! And sadly, we have engineered the weapon of our own demise. Now, the smart people are mixing with the dumb people, so now the few smart offspring are diluted, and the ratio keeps slipping off the shallow end of the gene pool. Combine these less than smart people with the social pollution of my last post, and you see the problem is compounding.
Russell