🎶 Why can't we be friends, Why can't we be friends 🎶 I agree - fuffle can be snarky (not nearly as snarky as me but still). And I agree - the article is about the ubiquity of the services we use and how even if you try to eliminate them, you have to eliiminate far, far more than you intend. Getting a photo out of a camera and to a friend on the Internet is tricky. Instagram is seamless. Playing music these days is tricky. Spotify is seamless. I mean, I listen to audiobooks from my public library and if Overdrive isn't on AWS, it's on Rakuten. And while paper calendars are great if they work for you, my wife and I are running twelve google calendars. For that matter, both of her EHRs (Electronic Health Record Systems) run on Google calendars and an iPad.
Playing music isn't so bad if you just bought a pair of Klipsch Cornwalls hooked up to a nice little stereo tube amp and you sister in law is staying with you for a godamn month so the only thing you want to do is hide in your basement and pour through your old vinyl collection. Just butting in to speaker brag... Sister and law broke all the ground rules for staying with us two days into her visit. Thank God for the speakers or I'd have gotten drunk and became the "angry unreasonable guy," and made all the women cry by now. I like the Cornwalls way better than the LaScallas or the Hereseys.
Your comment made my day! I spent 30+ years looking for my "perfect sound", I put it in quotes because I feel it's just as subjective as my favorite food. I ended up with a pair of Cornwalls, a handmade tube amp by this guy John Hogan and a VPI Scoutmaster. I smile every time I listen.
I've listened to the whole Klipsch line up and the Cornwalls are my favorite. I've heard some kick ass JBL's but for the price people are asking I never seriously compared them. I need a better amp. I've got a little 25 watt tube amp but it has a low buzz that makes me crazy. The buzz disappears at any volume but... I should probably sell off or try to trade some music gear and see what I can get into. It will probably be a long while before a gather up the bread to upgrade my Technics 1200, it's good enough for now.
Oh man, i miss my Cornwalls. Awesome speakers. I had to part with them many years ago due to financial hardship. Life is good now, would be better with some cornwalls though.