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Hi Phil, I have to admit that I've been sat down in front of stereo systems that were either handcrafted over decades by the owner and/or were worth enough to pay off my student loans and set me up with a decent stock portfolio so that I could spend my days composing music that everyone on this planet besides myself would hate, and I must say that there were moments when I felt I was right there in the hall -- until the needle hit the inevitable microscopic piece of dust or filament or whatever causing my hair to stand on end. And I've never gotten through a single piece of music played on one of these systems without that happening at least once. What those people never let me do, though, is listen to a CD-remaster of the same recording on the same system, but they assure me that the "colour" and "staging" or "presence" just aren't there in the CD-version for me to hear. I've never been presented with an analog system that had these enormous benefits over digital that I keep hearing...
Sorry, Phil, you keep telling me to look on your website for work stuff but I invariably end up in the sillier sections like this one; I guess we're both ingesting the same mental diuretic. Even though everything here strikes me as so obvious that I want to ask whether you truly believe people that spend their lives connected to welfare (either on the business side or the business end) haven't actually thought if these things and have experienced they're shortcomings as a daily occurence, I will instead try to add something small and almost constructive.My assumption is the largely accepted notion that nothing is "given", that the act of "giving" immediately makes the "giver" feel entitled to dictate/lecture/instruct/boss-around the recipient. Like buying stock. You pitch a dime, you can't say much, but doing more entitles you to all kinds of leverage, or so it is believed and works in practice.
Now, the slicker "welfare reform" types want to take everyone's favorite "...