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    Heh-heh... No, we're just semi-discerning daftees!

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Heh-heh... No, we're just semi-discerning daftees!

    Marco.
    Oh thank God for that. The off topic room in PFM is something to be observed. Weirdly its like the middle aged militant male only version of some super uptight student union association. You get ultra lefties and middle of the road types, but they all got one thing in common, political correctness, that's their creed, Blairites most of them, probably a lot of Lib dems amongst them too.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikeandvan View Post
    Oh thank God for that. The off topic room in PFM is something to be observed. Weirdly its like the middle aged militant male only version of some super uptight student union association. You get ultra lefties and middle of the road types, but they all got one thing in common, political correctness, that's their creed, Blairites most of them, probably a lot of Lib dems amongst them too.
    Sounds good to me, see ya later!

    Only joking, I'm staying here with the thicko's, revolutionaries, technical geniuses, jokers, and er, Marco
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

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    Quote Originally Posted by AJSki2fly View Post
    Sorry Martin, but I do not think that is the whole picture. Where I work very subtle techniques or not so subtle, depending on how perceptive you are, are used to enforce the belief that the product is a must have as it will improve your life and life experience, and that not having one will mean you have made a poor choice, that will be viewed by others as such. It is very clever in how it is done and extremely effective, many different businesses use these methods to build brands and loyalty.


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    That's pretty much what I said 'If there is brainwashing it's their attempting to convince us that one brand is better than another for the purpose of establishing status. '
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Sounds good to me, see ya later!

    Only joking, I'm staying here with the thicko's, revolutionaries, technical geniuses, jokers, and er, Marco
    Yesh, I'm shpeshial (needs), sho have my very own categoree...

    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.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    I'd say it changed with the introduction of easy credit - credit cards. 1970s or thereabouts. Prior to that only the professional middle classes could buy luxury goods to impress their friends. By the mid 1980s credit cards were ubiquitous so everyone could get in on the act.
    Well, the Jeff Beck song 'Tallyman' (1967) was aimed at people buying things 'on tick', so people aspiring to things they couldn't afford was perceived as a problem even then. I've seen British newspaper articles from the 1930s condemning consumerism and materialism. As with all these things, once you look more closely at contemporary reports (rather than relying on rose-tinted specs) you realise that what seem to be purely modern ills have been around for decades, or even centuries.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AJSki2fly View Post
    Sorry Martin, but I do not think that is the whole picture. Where I work very subtle techniques or not so subtle, depending on how perceptive you are, are used to enforce the belief that the product is a must have as it will improve your life and life experience, and that not having one will mean you have made a poor choice, that will be viewed by others as such. It is very clever in how it is done and extremely effective, many different businesses use these methods to build brands and loyalty.
    But surely they always have done? From the Rolling Stones 'Get Off My Cloud' (1965):

    'Well I'm watching my TV when a man comes on who tells me
    How white my shirts could be
    But he can't be a man cause he doesn't smoke
    The same cigarettes as me'.

    That's how advertising has to work: 'product A is better than product B, thus if you use product A you are a better person than those who use product B'. What I don't quite grasp is how advertising iPhones is any different from advertising any other product. Clearly if you have no interest in any sort of smartphone you will be immune from such advertising, but you are deluding yourself if you think that you are immune to all advertising unless you live in a shack in the back of beyond, grow your own food and weave your own clothes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    As with all these things, once you look more closely at contemporary reports (rather than relying on rose-tinted specs) you realise that what seem to be purely modern ills have been around for decades, or even centuries.
    Not relying on "rose-tinted specs", Joe, but simply observing reality. I just look at what's happening in the world around me today. I don't need to read (likely biased, agenda-driven) "contemporary reports", and you'd need to be blind not to see that consumerism has become much worse now than it was in the 60s!

    Yes, there is no denying that forms of consumerism, and folks buying things "on tick" has been happening for a very long time, but the FACT is, it's never been WORSE than it is now - and for reasons many of us here have stated.

    I asked the question earlier, which so far has been patently ignored, about comparing UK personal debt figures from the 70s with those now.

    You can go back to the 60s, if you like, or even the 30s, and I guarantee that the figures would show personal debt has been on the increase (sharp incline) for years, now at an all-time high, and it's because people are buying much more "stuff" than ever [which they've been 'told' that they need], and in many cases getting into huge debt to obtain it.

    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.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe View Post
    What I don't quite grasp is how advertising iPhones is any different from advertising any other product.
    It's not just Apple who are guilty of insidious and viral marketing, but many other big companies. The point is, the creation of the Internet, and subsequently smartphones (of any description), has made it much easier to brainwash people, without them even realising what's happened: that they've gradually been very subtly manipulated and controlled.

    This stuff doesn't just happen overnight. It's a slow, but deliberate process. That's why I'm using the words "viral" and "insidious". You seem to be stubbornly resistant to considering any notion that doesn't fit with your belief system.

    Marco.
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    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!!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post
    Fast food took off. TV took off.
    Flights of fancy, perhaps?

    Dennis, I get confused by your proliferation of speech marks ("...."). Sometimes it's direct speech and sometimes it's quotations ('.....') and sometimes it's neither; simply comment. I am (as you know) a bit punctilious in the application of punctuation and easily become befuddled by spurious marks. Now, where's my pills.......?

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