No no no. You’re getting it all wrong. High end audio is about listening to endless configurations and, in the end, never buying anything. I spent a lot of good years doing that...

Yeah, your components are cheap, but how much did that drill press cost? And the table saw, joiner, planer, plunge router...

Driving what speakers?

Lol. Lemme guess, you grew up in the internet age...

Macintosh amp driving Martin Logan electrosonics, with a Linn turntable. No, new systems don’t sound better.

Counterpoint: contemporary music is autotuned and compressed to hell; it’ll sound like shit no matter what you play it on.

Just with 1/6 the wattage.

I think if they’re paying for licensing, which they never had to pay for, and additional inputs which didn’t exist before, and the price of components has risen with inflation, but the price of receivers has not, then they have to be skimping on quality of components.

That is a bitchin’ EQ.

Run for President in 2020? We could use him...

apparati apparatuses. Fourth declension (not second), in Latin it would be “apparatus”, so in English just add -es. But whatever, really.

Bannon. He’s expressed the desire to (I don’t have the exact quote) break the government, then blame it for not working, then get rid of it altogether.

At the same time as the Candida auris fungus is starting to kill more and more people...

Yep. There’s no wrong thing that Trump isn’t responsible for.

Pangolins are mammals, then?

Reporters are just clueless these days. They just pay attention to whatever shiny object catches their eyes.

I’m ready to see a horse elected consul...

“The moon is within the earth’s magnetosphere?” 60 earth radii away? You sure about that??

So in a few decades we’ll have robots capable of mining, smelting, metal fabrication, chip fabrication — basically everything that’s taken mankind millions of man hours to develop to build the robots in the first place?

Mars lacks a strong enough magnetic field to prevent the solar wind from stripping the atmosphere...