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  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • I can't note anything sound 'stupid' there.

    Experiences AND memories do vanish. That's a fact, it's completely natural and fine and it's not a general necessity to fight against that. I found that it is possible to accept transience.

    Guess what, we can have new experiences any moment.

    Spending much time and money to preserve all the present experiences without gaps and to combat the fleeting nature of all things and to capture every moment of my life for the future seems wasteful. I did this too in the past but the older I get the more I find that I'd rather spend my time in the present moment than in the archive.

    Not having so much, being more. The more we collect and accumulate, the more that holds us back.

    But hey, I don't want to discourage anyone and I can understand the approach.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • You deteriorate. We all deteriorate. What's the point of that illusion of having a perfect eternal storage medium for data? It's the experience that matters.

  • DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media

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  • Maybe pay the artists?

  • Donald Trump's Parents

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  • Covfefe.

  • Climber on trial for leaving girlfriend to die on Austria's highest mountain

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  • During the court trial, a witness testified that he had essentially done the same thing to her. He took her on excessively difficult hikes with inadequate equipment, then talked her into continuing, only to leave her crying and distressed in the middle of the night on the Grossglockner.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • As I said, that appeals to the masses.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I described it somewhat metaphorically. I also get goosebumps repeatedly and again.

    I simply noticed during several customer interactions at the hi-fi shop that some people seem to be looking for idealistic audio experiences with a fixed idea of how it should be and believe that's a purely technical problem. As if a certain cable or amplifier could solve that.

    Someone once asked me which cable he should buy to make the music sound really captivating. I dunno, maybe listen to some other music?

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I had a salesperson who said that with This more expensive HDMI cable, the picture almost looks three-dimensional!

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Even the shielding technologies are way overdone and overpriced in the high end audio market. They act as if they're running their cables through microwave ovens or magnet resonance machines. If you have strong electromagnetic fields around your audio equipment then somethings wrong in the room.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Some of them even improve their rooms accordingly but are never satisfied.

    Some search for the listening experience they had when they were in their twenties and discovered their special music for the first time. They think if they just spend enough money on improving the equipment, the goosebumps of the days of yore will come back automatically.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Bose is famous for unnatural sound boosting. This appeals to the masses and fits to modern listening habits.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • But don't forget the quality of the optic fibers used is also absolutely crucial. Most important factor here is to prevent light scattering along the cable run. So that the zeroes and ones don't get irritated and upset. You don't want the amplifier's error correction to get in a bad mood. So better buy that pure diamond cable that was produced on a full moon night. The captured moon light can can soothe the negative effects of scattered light.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • It's not about sound quality, it's about wasting money and showing off. Maybe some placebo effect, too.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • Yep, there are a few things that matter in terms of signal transmission and audio quality and others don't. But in the audio market, every product is marketed as sound-critical, even if it is physically impossible from a scientific point of view. They come up with the most absurd justifications for their “innovations”.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I worked at an online shop for high end audio equipment. It was always both amusing and painful when customers asked about the sound characteristics of various power cables in the price range between $100 and $10,000 that we carried, or the same with USB and optical digital cables. Some came with the firm belief that they needed better power cables to enhance the bass of their setup. They even bought gold plated "audiophile fuses".

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • The products and services around ‘AI’ are deficient and dangerous, that's what the market says. There's no demand for bullshit products. It is the ignorance and unwillingness to understand of the tech bros that is revealed here. They don't listen to the market, aka. the people.

  • ⛄ hat angefangen, heftig zu schneien

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  • Geht jetzt los...

  • Trump’s ‘Bah! Humbug!’ address suggests he is feeling the chill of opinion polls

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  • Excellent analysis by Jim Stewartson here:

    Trump’s Colonized Mind: The Cognitive Dysfunction Destabilizing the Planet

    The neurological, psychological, and political breakdown of the American president—and the people taking full advantage of it.

    "Trump is experiencing a rapid decline in cognitive function. – He is alone and angry on a deserted mental island. – It’s impossible to watch him at this point and ignore his dysfunction. – It’s as if his shrinking mind has been colonized by his advisors and donors. – Donald Trump is less the leader of a nation and more of a glitchy, reprogrammable weapon of mass destruction—being wielded by a constellation of America’s enemies, foreign and domestic."

    https://www.mind-war.com/p/trumps-colonized-mind-the-cognitive

  • Trump Economy 'Stalling Out' as Unemployment Rate Hits Highest Level in 4 Years

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  • Plus: many people who can avoid travelling to the USA are actively avoiding that, given the new plans for entry requirements. If everyone wanting to enter on a tourist visa will have to figuratively undress completely regarding their online and communication activities, nobody sane will go there for fun anymore.

  • What’s Hiding Inside Haribo’s Power Bank and Headphones?

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  • Or get shot by an armed Samsung robot...