Yeah the room is like a meta-cabinet.

Your speaker strategy has to consider listening style (sitting, working, watching, ambient, etc.) and build from there: big stereo, small nearfield, flooded or point source, placement like height angle and and close or far to wall, audio style, resonance locations, materials in and on surfaces, etc…

So two big towers or a bunch of wee little Kantos can be great or lousy depending on all that.

Or you could just buy a couple of cheap pure silver speaker cables coated with gold and everything will be great.

This infrastructure represents a structural failure in society.

In that sense the room is part of the transducer itself, yes, as the speaker cabinet supports the speaker driver, so do the walls and room size. Think of them as a system.

Holy shit english has so many specific terms for dirt! It’s just jargon to urban dwellers.

HugeNerd is correct, 90+% of audio quality is in the mic and speakers. Transducers make electro acoustics real, everything else is support.

Get really great used speakers cheap and an adequate amp just good enough to drive them. Your shit will sound excellent for anyone.

The Khans don’t qualify?

Yes, and yet all the great novels are deeply political, in a philosophical sense.

So is it taste? No, I think it’s more about honesty.

The word ‘sitch’ is very localized idiom and also confusing.

Wisely selective hunting in the absence of adequate predation can be important for an ecosystem, it’s old wisdom. (Not that that is how hunting regulation works in Canada of course.)

But in an interdependent origination view of living in a web, hunting like that is not totally different from how we manage plants that evolved with herbivorous megafauna. Those megafauna are extinct, so now part of the web is broken. So people coppice willows, and they live three times longer and are more resistant to disease. Pruning by teeth is what many deciduous trees and shrubs evolved for, so we have to fill the gap to get a really healthy orchard.

It was impossible to garden until we put up a skookum fence, and with only a few occasional predators (gulf islands) the deer are shrinking in size yet browse in greater numbers. The forests are out of balance because they are overbrowsed.

Not much hunting locally due to restrictions, I think it was only shotgun slug and bow a few years back, and there’s not much crown land around, so we have a bad deer problem.

We pulled one part of the ecology out, predation, and people object to replacing it or any fix. It’s going to make wildfires worse and reduces biodiversity.

don’t want a world where crimes are expected

Yes, that is one of the Warlords: The Great Filter timelines.

To be clear, different organic certification standards exist, and some, like oregon tilth, test soil for drift from the neighbouring fields. Part of why organic food is more expensive, it’s an externality from conventional agriculture.

Huge shoutout to Errol Nazareth, his worldly playlist is like my favourite part of my music collection, but mostly new to me.

Yes, our team uses it as a Skype/teams replacement, we pay $20 per month for a server on etke.cc in Germany. Their implementation, however, doesn’t seem to do group videocalls with screensharing, just group voice.

We are not federated because it is just an internal service that we need.

Yes, in part, the struggles of a person inside a utopia would be difficult for an audience to appreciate, so The Culture novels and Star Trek both take the action to the margins, where things are messy and the struggles are more familiar.

Starring “Book” from Discovery.

Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and the Roman church are all catholic, I have been told by a seminarian, but two of them are not roman catholic.

What if there was, after all, reverse psychology at work? A little plausible deniability, a little fun.

Yeah, obviously. So, are they in denial or do they know something we don’t?

But… not the pilots and brass, apparently, they want the power platform promise that hasn’t been demonstrated yet.