Popular Post firedog Posted June 16, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 16, 2018 15 minutes ago, Nordkapp said: Chinese gear is total crap, toxic and with every purchase you support a communist regime guilty of massive human rights violations. Silly generalization.Lots of Chinese made hifi gear is top notch. Yes, and some is junk. BTW, is the Chinese made iPhone crap? As far as the politics, certainly your right to boycott them for those reasons. But that has zero direct relationship to the quality of the products. The Computer Audiophile, Ajax, mav52 and 2 others 4 1 Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 53 minutes ago, mansr said: The trouble, as it were, with communism is that it has to be maintained by force. Given a choice, people seem to reject it in favour of something less extreme. You guys are confusing 2 different things: Communism and communism. The first did and does exist, and is maintained by force, including in China. The second also exists, and is maintained by choice among the people who are communing. Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 4 minutes ago, mansr said: Modern China is the purest market economy this planet has ever seen. Don’t think so. Probably 19th century Britain or US were much more so. But having aspects of a market economy doesn’t have anything to do with whether your society is Communist. China still is. Ask the Politburo that recently “elected” the leader for life. Nordkapp 1 Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 3 hours ago, AnotherSpin said: One may want to see the difference between the name or slogan and the reality of life in a country. Pure and clean communism is and was an idea or ideal only, never practically achieved. If you proclaim your country communist and kill a large part of your people it doesn't mean your country' government is communist. As good as it may sound the principle of communal ownership and distribution was never actualized in reality. Some people are more equal then other people each time. Communal living works on a small scale, when the participants are all willing to live that way and choose that lifestyle. It can't work on a large scale, for 2 reasons: a)non-market/non-money based distribution becomes very complicated and can't be done efficiently or equitably; b) even in a situation where non-market based distribution can be achieved, a communal setup can't work if people are forced into it. It requires willing participants who have a positive desire to have it succeed. What we call "Communism" is more accurately called "Bolshevism"; but we're stuck with the name we have, it appears. Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 30 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said: Again, we talk about governments. In a small scale communism is more than viable, of course. Every survived family or even single organism exist on the same principle. Sorry, sort of irrelevant to reality. A family unit isn't communism, as it isn't a "community", it's a family. Any kind of communism that means anything would have to consist of significantly more than one family. No big deal for humans with a clear genetic/evolutionary reason to cooperate to do so. A village would be a more relevant example. But we should probably drop this and get back to Chinese gear. Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 17, 2018 Share Posted June 17, 2018 1 hour ago, Nordkapp said: Still coming to terms with it, eh? What happens when Trump gets re elected? Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 9 hours ago, Teresa said: That is state capitalism not communism. As noted above communism is democracy in the workplace, worker owned and worker controlled. 9 hours ago, Teresa said: None of those countries are communist as their workers do not own the means of production. Those countries have replaced private capitalists with state capitalist dictatorships and are in no way communist except in the rhetoric and platitudes directed at their citizens. Again, you guys are talking about a textbook model of "communism" which doesn't exist and never has on the state level. In the world there is Communism with a capital C, which is something different but definitely exists in several countries. Saying those countries aren't "communist" is correct; saying they aren't "Communist" isn't. Ralf11 1 Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 18, 2018 Share Posted June 18, 2018 6 hours ago, pkane2001 said: Why? Jews were heavily discriminated against in the USSR and still are in Russia. Ask my freinds, who left about things like quotas against Jews at universities and the like. Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 10 hours ago, AnotherSpin said: Oh, come on. Jews were represented in the high education group significantly above any other nationality in USSR. Most of my friends were Jewish and they were very happy people in USSR. Yes, there were some antisemitic tendencies which were very succesfully used to various kind of advantage by "victims". And not only in that country. Back it up with stats. And BTW, even if true, that doesn't mean there weren't quotas and other forms of discrimination. The two don't contradict each other. There were once anti-Jewish quotas at leading Universities in the US - at the same time as those universities had many Jewish students. Do you think it's coincidence that so many Jews left when they could, or that many risked prison sentences in order to get the right to leave? I don't. Ask the people I know who lost their jobs and/or were put in prison for "crimes" like learning Hebrew or asking to emigrate. Maybe your Jewish friends towed the line and did none of these things or were good party members so were mostly left alone. christopher3393 1 Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 2 hours ago, AnotherSpin said: I do not have such stats. But I have my personal experience and my memory is not so weak yet. Sweeping majority of my school teachers were jews. And almost all of them were excellent teachers. My dentist was jewish, and doctor who helped my wife deliver kids was jewish as well. I was a college lecturer for +10 years, just before the USSR collapsed. I never saw any documents asking to quote jews, nor I never heard any requirements of this kind. My jewish students were not better nor worse than any other. Some of them were excellent, some mediocre. Never met anyone who suffered prison sentence because he or she wanted to leave. I know many people who left and they were not jewish too. It's really simple: thousands and thousands or even millions of stories of discrimination, including assault, and even imprisonment for the "crime" of being Jewish, or even the crime of wanting to know Hebrew and Jewish history. None of your anecdotal stories change that, nor does your rose colored glasses view of what the situation was like. Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 19, 2018 Share Posted June 19, 2018 30 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said: You are free to believe those millions stories. Thank you. Turns out your handle on this site is very appropriate. You certainly have a unique spin. pkane2001 1 Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 7 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said: Yes, one famous dictator said: Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. (Luke 9:23) Anyone can out of context quote the Bible to prove any point-even diametrically opposed ones. And if you actually understood what you quoted, you would understand it isn’t backing up what you think it is. mav52 1 Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 2 hours ago, mav52 said: I see you noted "WAS" , where do you live now was= no more USSR? mav52 1 Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
firedog Posted June 21, 2018 Share Posted June 21, 2018 2 hours ago, AnotherSpin said: USSR was disbanded in 1991. yes, that's what I was referring to. Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +>Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Strip/Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three (on their own electric circuit) >GIK Room Treatments. Secondary Path: Server with Audiolense RC>RPi4 or analog>Cayin iDAC6 MKII (tube mode) (XLR)>Kii Three . Bedroom: SBTouch to Cambridge Soundworks Desktop Setup. Living Room/Kitchen: Ropieee (RPi3b+ with touchscreen) + Schiit Modi3E to a pair of Morel Hogtalare. All absolute statements about audio are false Link to comment
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