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Chinese Hi-Fi Influencer Takes Aim at Topping: Dispute Finally Settled, Quick Recap for the Curious
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If you can't say anything nice...
Ojalá is, of course, inshallah. It entered the Spanish language by way of the Moorish invasion and, like all common and useful foreign words in Spanish, it's spelling and pronunciation were adapted to the rules of Spanish phonetics.
It is surely possible to communicate by means other than language, but it's kind of like trying to fix your car with sticks and stones. It's not ideal.
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I see it as a reason to communicate more not less. As you say, most of the time we manage to work things out and even have a laugh over the difference in meaning. That only works when both sides accept the possibility of miscommunication, and neither is intending to offend or to take offence - not common, but it does happen from time to time. Knowing the most likely causes of confusion in advance is a good thing, and people have been putting that sort of thing in travel guides and phrase books for centuries. And like the internet, sometimes they weren't accurate:
Well, in my 9 trips to Europe (including some of the then USSR satellite nations) and places I went during trips that involved my 14 passages through the Panama Canal (even in some places that were shooting up each other). That was the way it worked 95-99% of the time.
(I really like me some Monty Python, thank you).
sparkies still use it
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Makes me nostalgic for my non-functional Thaedra.
Just more High End insanity.
I don't want to get into this crap any more, there's already too much coverage in other threads, but how
much more ridiculous can it get than $750,000 a pair Magico M9's? That only rounds up to $8.250 million for a
starter 11 base channel multich rig. Then some really good subwoofers to get the effects channel response into the single digits and a bunch of butt kickers so to really feel it. And you can't have a good High End music reproduction rig without 6 overhead Atmos speakers, what would your buddy the Shah or Sheikh's think?
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They'd think of it as a poverty-pack system desperately in need of upgrades.
PW'd wimps. LOL
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As far as I know, brands such as Topping and Fosi are mainly sold overseas. Nowadays, people don't like audio equipment that takes up too much space, which explains why products like Bluetooth-enabled glasses can sell for such high prices and do well in sales.
Smartphones and Bluetooth meet the needs of most people.
Other audiophiles generally don't buy brands like Topping and Fosi. They tend to prefer international brands or discontinued models.
Of course, these brands will be affordable enthusiasts will buy, but the evaluation may not be very good, they have golden ears, with ears to judge good or bad.
Smartphones and Bluetooth meet the needs of most people.
Other audiophiles generally don't buy brands like Topping and Fosi. They tend to prefer international brands or discontinued models.
Of course, these brands will be affordable enthusiasts will buy, but the evaluation may not be very good, they have golden ears, with ears to judge good or bad.
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I had a Thaedra pre-amp for several years. Great gear.
My friend and mentor was a newscaster involved with several broadcasting stations (I met him as he was my team lead in Jr. Achievement).
This was his home stereo a few years after I met him
Technics SP10 MK3, and a Day Sequerra FM Reference Tuner
driving a
Thaedra and a
Crown DC-300 power amplifier
Description: Solid-state stereo power amplifier. Rated power: 100Wpc into 16 ohms (23dBW), 150Wpc into 8 ohms (21.8dBW), 250Wpc into 4 ohms (21dBW), all at <0.1% IM distortion. Frequency response: DC–20kHz, ±0.1dB; DC–100kHz ±0.6dB. IM distortion: <0.1%, 10mW–150W into 8 ohms; typically below 0.05%. Input sensitivity: 1.75V in for rated power out.
Dimensions: 7" (178mm) H by 9¾" (229mm) D by 19" (483mm) W (standard rack-mount panel). Weight: 40 lbs (18.2kg).
driving a pair of Dahlquist DQ10's & and a pair of the Dahlquist SUB's driven by a second Crown DC-300.After my European influence with a friends NAD gear in GRAZ, Austria, when I was 14, this was my American influence after I graduated high school (in 1975).
Now this was not in 1975 but I know that I wasn't out of high school too long before he showed me this and it became a part of my every other week or so life.
He was a renter: he rented the top floor of a 4 story mansion (but he was still renting, I had no clue that people rented out part of their mansions).
In the early 80's I had a girlfriend that did the same thing for us at 17th & P NW, Washington, DC. (No wonder that I was broke and heavily in debt when I finally got married at the age of 48). Thank God that for 19 years my wife has stuck by me (we don't have any money but we are debt free).
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I worked at 14th & F at the time.
That area was on a downward trajectory even then.
Yeah, there are a lot of negatives: I basically squandered my money away and partied like it's 1999 until about 1 year before I got married at 48 and I had to explain why I was a pauper at that point in my life (but didn't even have an ex with kids that took it all).
I had just blown it all on what I wanted to do from the time I started my lawncare business when I was 11 (1968) until I was 47 (2004) and had $76,000 debt.
She saw something in me then that I did not see in myself (and she stuck to her guns and when she realized that I had put $20,000 toward the debt in under 3 years, she started putting like a (one year) matching sum toward it every couple of years).
She did not tell me that she was going to do this and when I discovered that we had a good bit more in the bank than I thought and asked "Where did that come from?", she said: "Well, I saw that you were making very good progress and I figured if I threw a years worth in here and there, that would keep you from thinking that I am working you like a dog. And it will help us get this problem behind us."
I always figured that she was possibly sneakier than me. I think so, yes.
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