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.
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Part of the problem is that you keep using that word 'subliminal'. It has a specific meaning in relation to advertising, and it doesn't refer to mass advertising. The phrase 'subliminal advertising', as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is:
'Used in various collocations relating to exploitation of the idea that people can be unconsciously influenced or taught by messages or other stimuli projected just below the threshold of awareness, as subliminal advertising, subliminal message, subliminal teaching, etc.
The idea of influencing people in this way became the subject of public controversy in 1957 following the announcement by the market researcher James Vicary (1915–77) that the insertion of advertising messages lasting a fraction of a second into a film shown at a cinema in Fort Lee, New Jersey, had been found to increase sales of the products advertised; however, it was later disclosed that no such experiment had been carried out, and the effectiveness of such methods in influencing behaviour remains a matter of debate.'
I don't suppose anyone is completely immune to advertising per se, but I don't believe that McDonalds use subliminal advertising.
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I'm joe.
I watched The Coronation on TV.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
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I wasn't even a worried look on my father's face back then.
I was nearly five and remember it clearly. I also remember all the neighbours crowding into our living room to see it, as we had the only telly in the street as far as I recall. The old man bought it for the occasion and it actually didn't pack up, which it did regularly afterwards.
It is impossible for anything digital to sound analogue, because it isn't analogue!
Exactly... I also agree with the first part of your last sentence. No I'm not *immune* to it, but I believe I'm much less susceptible to it than some, confirmed in part by the lifestyle choices I deliberately make, or indeed vehemently shun...
I disagree though that McDonalds don't use subliminal advertising. It comes in many different forms, as subtly as having the presence of their logo in an unexpected public place, or on TV, out with of one of their adverts. Stuff like that happens all the time. The point is though, if it's done right, you'll be unaware of it!
It lays dormant in your subconscious, and at some point later may inadvertently influence your buying decisions... Now, that's definitely my last comment on the subject!
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!!!