Recent content by Feanor

I'll be 81 y/o next month. I'm basically stone deaf above 8000 kHz, but I still enjoy the music and appreciate good, distortion-free components. However, assuming basically very good equipment, the album's recording & mastering make much more difference than component swapping -- but that was...

Very understandable is objection to the current activities of Russia and leader/dictator. However I don't thing its a great reason pe se to object to Shostakovich ... he is definitely one of my favourite composers. During his writting of his 5th thru 9th symphonies, Shostakovich was under the...

Cheap ad hominem attacks have nothing to do with facts. But in that vain, when I look at Trump's tariff policy and his execution of that policy, I wonder, "Whose dementia should we worry about today?".

All said, MSM is still the best source of FACTS, if not opinions. Nowadays there is a crackpot site, blog, or YouTube channel to cater to every imaginable bias and conspiracy theory, but it's delusional to rely on those in the least degree.

Think it is sufficient to say that all there point can be thoroughly refuted ... but the real issue is that even educated, intelligent people can be hoodwinked by populist propaganda. And the reason for that is people believe what they want to believe, viz. partisan, class, and tribal...

That is hardly a refutation of my points. Come to that, I do watch quite a bit of TV news. My favorites more or less in terms of viewing time are: CBC (Canadian) BBC CNN Al Jazeera ... and much less often ... CTV (Canadian) MSNBC NPR Basically I never watch FOX because it is a lot of...

... A disappointing reassertion of standard Trumpian talk points. Perhaps my perspective in the Great White North gives me more objectivity. As I see it, the Trump's methods and intentions are frighteningly close to historic fascist examples Encouraging or promoting insurgency Attempting to...

It's true too the the province of Quebec had a referendum on its independence a few years ago that was defeated. Albert may have such a referendum, but meanwhile the treat of secession there is more of a bargaining threat against the Liberal Party federal gov't to extract more advantages from...

Likewise :) Ain't going to happen, though. As our new PM apprised the President, Canada isn't for sale. From time to time various prominent American have had the whimsical notion of annexing Canada. Canadians have resisted the idea since the invasions of 1776 and 1812 and will continued to...

Another excellent example is aluminum. The USA gets 60% of that metal from Canada. Aluminum requires large amounts of electrical power to process the metal from ores; the province of Quebec, Canada, has huge amounts of electrical capacity on account vast hydro-electric facilities. There is...

This is an extreme & unreasonable statement. Probably you're aware that the concept of free trade which has been around since Adam Smith, (1776: Wealth of Nations). Fundamentally the notion is that by nations doing what they do best and, in many cases, leaving other stuff to other nations...

VATs are typically applied to all goods, domestic and imported, hence there is no valid argument that they are to protect domestic producers. That said, US trade officials have complained about Canada's VAT, (here called GST or HST). The argument appears to be the Canadian producers are...

Last night I listened to CD 1 of THIS set I recently acquired ... FWIW, I've never been disappointed by an Emerson recording.

The thing to understand about ASR's SINAD is that it is essentially just THD + noise. It share the same problem that single-number THD did in the '70s and '80s. Amir touts SINAD as valid because "other measurements tend to correlated" with it. Well not really, IMHO. Personally I pay a lot...

As for the '70s and '80s that was the era of the single, says-it-all, THD (total harmonic distortion). However there are components of harmonic distortion, a spectrum of various distortions that comprise the whole. The error of the era was to ignore those distortion components in favor of THD...