More absolute nonsense. The troubling part is how many college educated people out there never read past the headline. Blame it on our national declining attention span. Critical thinking has gone the way of the cassette player and the flip phone.
More absolute nonsense. The troubling part is how many college educated people out there never read past the headline. Blame it on our national declining attention span. Critical thinking has gone the way of the cassette player and the flip phone.
What's wrong with the the cassette player and the flip phone?
No flip phone but I have functional cassette players in three cars ('72 MK IV, '89 Bentley and '99 Taurus SHO) and a B&O 9000 deck in a B&O 8000 system.
I've found a lot of the older technology and older devices were of much higher quality. Sounds like you must agree. Those cars sound sweet, even the '99 Taurus is probably a dream to work on if you're an auto mechanic. Did you find B&O worth it? Always seemed extraordinarily expensive.
They are all fairly easy to work on. The Taurus SHO intake manifold has to be removed to get to the rear bank of spark plugs. It will easily run with a Mustang GT from the same year up to about 120 mph. The B&O system I bought for the design and the linear tracking turntable and it will put out 150w per channel into 4 ohms. The receiver alone weighs 45 lbs and the 9000 cassette deck is the three head design. So, to your question, I could have gotten the same sound quality for less money but I like it and have maintained it all these years. Although I have a digital camera (Fuji X-Pro2) I still like to use film and a Leica M3 from the 1950's is my go to.
We have thousands of years of old and relative few years of new so the odds are better that there will be more, better older things than new. (Doesn't apply to golf equipment though)
One of the things I like about older items is that they were more likely to be built to last and also they are more likely to be repaired or modified. New items such as cars or electronics or just about anything are made to be used and then thrown away. We live in a disposable society now where we don't even change the battery in our cell phone, we just get a new cell phone. To your point, the older cameras and audio equipment are from a different era with a different mentality around the items in our life. I have a Nikon D750, which isn't old but it also isn't the latest and greatest but maybe I'll give the Leica M3 a whirl too one day; although, I heard the film cameras have had a little renaissance and have become very expensive. Dave, you are a dying breed of person and it sounds like you have an awesome life. As such, it doesn't surprise me that you're on Berenson's substack either.
I'm thinking simply wrong types in wrong positions spewing subjective-political science. Scott Atlas and Harvey Risch etc, are the types I tend to lean on for humble perspective not bought off as far as I can tell like most
Aside from helping you get a better job, college has become worse than useless: overpriced day care centers that churn out good little hoop-jumpers. Maybe I exaggerate, but the vast majority who bucked the mandates were those who looked at college and said, "Nah."
BTW, I'm still using my flip phone. Smart phones don't seem to make people any smarter.
I would have passed on college, but I wanted to be a wildlife biologist and one could not enter that profession without a degree in wildlife management. If they offered an alternative route of on-the-job training I would have jumped at it.
More absolute nonsense. The troubling part is how many college educated people out there never read past the headline. Blame it on our national declining attention span. Critical thinking has gone the way of the cassette player and the flip phone.
I liked my flip phone
I still use one! And, it embarrasses the hell out of my kids.
Haha!!
Flip phones rule. No Google. No apple. Battery lasts days, days I tell you.
Also $25 new.
And they flip.
тАЬAnd they flip.тАЭтАж.ЁЯСНЁЯОпЁЯТе
What's wrong with the the cassette player and the flip phone?
No flip phone but I have functional cassette players in three cars ('72 MK IV, '89 Bentley and '99 Taurus SHO) and a B&O 9000 deck in a B&O 8000 system.
I've found a lot of the older technology and older devices were of much higher quality. Sounds like you must agree. Those cars sound sweet, even the '99 Taurus is probably a dream to work on if you're an auto mechanic. Did you find B&O worth it? Always seemed extraordinarily expensive.
They are all fairly easy to work on. The Taurus SHO intake manifold has to be removed to get to the rear bank of spark plugs. It will easily run with a Mustang GT from the same year up to about 120 mph. The B&O system I bought for the design and the linear tracking turntable and it will put out 150w per channel into 4 ohms. The receiver alone weighs 45 lbs and the 9000 cassette deck is the three head design. So, to your question, I could have gotten the same sound quality for less money but I like it and have maintained it all these years. Although I have a digital camera (Fuji X-Pro2) I still like to use film and a Leica M3 from the 1950's is my go to.
We have thousands of years of old and relative few years of new so the odds are better that there will be more, better older things than new. (Doesn't apply to golf equipment though)
One of the things I like about older items is that they were more likely to be built to last and also they are more likely to be repaired or modified. New items such as cars or electronics or just about anything are made to be used and then thrown away. We live in a disposable society now where we don't even change the battery in our cell phone, we just get a new cell phone. To your point, the older cameras and audio equipment are from a different era with a different mentality around the items in our life. I have a Nikon D750, which isn't old but it also isn't the latest and greatest but maybe I'll give the Leica M3 a whirl too one day; although, I heard the film cameras have had a little renaissance and have become very expensive. Dave, you are a dying breed of person and it sounds like you have an awesome life. As such, it doesn't surprise me that you're on Berenson's substack either.
Leica M3 from the 1950тАЩs? Impressive!
it is indeed the way to go!
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Hey dude. You are liven large.
Science has been hijacked
Not hijacked, but dead and gone. Science? What science? I don't see any science.
I'm thinking simply wrong types in wrong positions spewing subjective-political science. Scott Atlas and Harvey Risch etc, are the types I tend to lean on for humble perspective not bought off as far as I can tell like most
Aside from helping you get a better job, college has become worse than useless: overpriced day care centers that churn out good little hoop-jumpers. Maybe I exaggerate, but the vast majority who bucked the mandates were those who looked at college and said, "Nah."
BTW, I'm still using my flip phone. Smart phones don't seem to make people any smarter.
"Good little hoop jumpers." Love it.
I would have passed on college, but I wanted to be a wildlife biologist and one could not enter that profession without a degree in wildlife management. If they offered an alternative route of on-the-job training I would have jumped at it.
Three in my family alone, all in their 50тАЩs. Absolutely baffling.
Hey - I still have a cassette player
I had one until I replaced the radio in my 2003 Camry.
Amen sister.