The catch, however: Chances are, the second hand speaker has been running many hours already, and so might need repair soon...
This is true for many professions, AI will certainly kill some jobs but will add many others just like the advent of the internet did. The issue in all these new technologies is what happens to the lower skilled workers. If you happen to go into any fast food place no one is there to take your order but a screen. Real human contact is disappearing and people meet on the internet, in my mind, a bit sad, but a boon for transcontinental and global interaction like ASR. Evolution is not goal directed.
So do a reductio ad absurdum; nobody's working because AI robots can do all physical and mental work. Nobody's getting paid since nobody's working. The tiny amount of human staff needed to support the AI is economically insignificant. The wealthy have a bunch of money that doesn't circulate and doesn't do anything. Dollars are the electrons that spin the motors of the economy when they circulate. AI's don't need them because they use real electricity.
I happen to stumble upon his channel during the early days of my audiophile journey, when I started to be skeptical about the stuff audiophiles tend to spew about like high quality power cables and interconnects. I searched up 'audiophile myths' or something like that, and one of his videos popped up! Been a subscriber since, and he's done a lot of other good stuff too, like debunking that Solar Roadways project, which as it turns out, is nothing but air.
So did Cabasse (France) for its active speakers since 1965 up to 2001, with active crossover and equalization filters, and amplifiers plug-in modules (and often servo-control module as well from 1976).The approach to these Genelec 8380 results seems excellent to me
Not a new concept. See Post-scarcity and Star Trek.
