Hey guys, calm it down on the placeist rhetoric, or I will have to nuke a whole bunch of posts.
Here's the deal:
1. There are stupid people everywhere.
2. If we don't live in a place, we don't understand the place.
3. There's lots of right and wrong, and most of the time when we think we're most right, we're most wrong.
So, relax. Talk about cats or barbecue or something.
I appreciate your no-nonsense thoughtfulness. This isn't the first time after reading a Jason post that I thought, "You know, I would vote for a Stoddard 2020 presidency." Too late to run?
To expand on "everyone does stupid things," look up a few things:
1. Operation Plowshare (part of which was widening the Panama Canal with nuclear weapons.) Extra credit: Orion Project.
2. Borisov Project (dam from Sibera to Alaska to change the climate.) Extra credit: Lysenko.
3. China's emperor(s) who buried the smartest people with them. Extra credit: the fact they had mass production 2500 years ago
4. The entire history of Europe's empire follies. Extra credit: the Crusades.
So again, if you're.a placeist, any place that hasn't done or proposed stupid things can talk. Everyone else shut up.
Edit: do I sound irritated? Yes, I am. I am tired of the passive-aggressive sniping/Karening/idiocy. Find the good. Get along. Clear?
Someone enlighten me please - from what I can tell planar drivers don't have surrounds like a dynamic driver. So are they just stretching the material (plastic?) as they move?
...if we are ever visited by representatives of a Galactic Confederation, we'll all (as in, all countries) be branded as an extreme tourist destination, with the warning of, "and these guys eat anything, and I mean, like, anything anything...so, hmm, yeah, you've been warned."
Someone enlighten me please - from what I can tell planar drivers don't have surrounds like a dynamic driver. So are they just stretching the material (plastic?) as they move?
I think the drivers are made with a tiny bit of slack. at some volume level, as the driver movement increases, the material stretches a little bit (along with the metal traces deposited on the substrate!!!).
some of mr speakers (now DanClarkAudio) planars (the ether 2 and maybe the new Aeon 2 series) have v-plannar design, a series of accordion like folds that are supposed to help make the motion more pistonic across the membrane, and perhaps act like a surround of sorts at the perimeter.
Amen. Lived my first 25 years in Portugal, next 5 in Scotland, then USA (CA x 2, NJ, PA) and 1 year in England. Pre-COVID-19, I spent a lot of time for work and fun in Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Argentina, Chile. I've found wonderful people, horrible people, indifferent people, every single place. Good government, and bad government, pretty much everywhere (except Norway where everything seems to run well and fairly). I made wonderful friends. I tried to avoid awful jerks. I love the USA and became a citizen, fully aware of its flaws and horrors. It's not as if where I came has so much to brag about (read up on the history of Portuguese colonialism and fascism) even though my friends and family over there pretend otherwise.
Do good work as Schiit demonstrates to us everyday, try to be nice, even the *$%$! who cut you off on 101 or got too close unmasked in the store, fight prejudice, give to the needy to the best of your resources. Life is short, viruses kill, your kids (and grandkids) grow too fast and meet their own struggles.
Music heals, and we all know how much we need that these days.
for silver Schiit in the older style U-chassis (e.g. Asgard 2, Bifrost OG), is there a list of cleaners to use (and what to avoid) to brighten / shine up these older units?
Someone enlighten me please - from what I can tell planar drivers don't have surrounds like a dynamic driver. So are they just stretching the material (plastic?) as they move?
Basically a tensioned Mylar panel is suspended between electrostatic panels. There is no piston as per a normal speaker. Changing electrostatic charges pull and push the Mylar panel back and forth, creating sound. There are variations, but that's pretty much it.
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@corndog71 Coooool!.... haven't seen a MiniDisc player since mine got stolen sometime around '96-'97. You've got to be one of the last users of the format. Keep it going!
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