"because no matter what anybody says, the biggest difference in any sound system is how these final devices move the air into your ears." Yes except that your ears are the final devices and no amount of expenditure can compensate for tinnitus or age-related hearing impairment. Going to rowdy concerts is still a lot of fun though since there is input from all sources and directions. Yes I wear ear plugs which ruin any hope of sound fidelity but the volume is generally so loud it wouldn't matter anyway.
You're not wrong. I wonder if we'll ever fix that via something like Neuralink. Clearly we have some rudimentary capabilities, as my friend Eli Steele will attest.
Speaking of which, I remember you posting decades ago that mobile phones were going to become bling and be showed off. Over the years, as I have watched people be snobby about their glitzed-up iPhones in a way that us Samsung users find ridiculous, I have had ample cause to meditate upon this truth.
I probably push back too hard, naively against computer geek stereotypes. So I invest more in more mainstream Old School signifiers. I only buy odd numbered iPhones, and I never learned Android - mostly for security reasons, but yeah I have a terabyte phone.
It's important to push back against stereotypes (the Catholic service brat says) if they don't match your actual personality & beliefs. I went the Samsung route because I had no option after HP bought and killed the Palm phones - Google Pixel phones were right out, and I was leery of Motorolas. Perhaps Elon will (in his copious free time) roll out the XPhone with satellite capability through Starlink, which would take care of some of my signal issues out here in the rurals, but until then it's ROK phones for me.
"because no matter what anybody says, the biggest difference in any sound system is how these final devices move the air into your ears." Yes except that your ears are the final devices and no amount of expenditure can compensate for tinnitus or age-related hearing impairment. Going to rowdy concerts is still a lot of fun though since there is input from all sources and directions. Yes I wear ear plugs which ruin any hope of sound fidelity but the volume is generally so loud it wouldn't matter anyway.
You're not wrong. I wonder if we'll ever fix that via something like Neuralink. Clearly we have some rudimentary capabilities, as my friend Eli Steele will attest.
Speaking of which, I remember you posting decades ago that mobile phones were going to become bling and be showed off. Over the years, as I have watched people be snobby about their glitzed-up iPhones in a way that us Samsung users find ridiculous, I have had ample cause to meditate upon this truth.
I probably push back too hard, naively against computer geek stereotypes. So I invest more in more mainstream Old School signifiers. I only buy odd numbered iPhones, and I never learned Android - mostly for security reasons, but yeah I have a terabyte phone.
It's important to push back against stereotypes (the Catholic service brat says) if they don't match your actual personality & beliefs. I went the Samsung route because I had no option after HP bought and killed the Palm phones - Google Pixel phones were right out, and I was leery of Motorolas. Perhaps Elon will (in his copious free time) roll out the XPhone with satellite capability through Starlink, which would take care of some of my signal issues out here in the rurals, but until then it's ROK phones for me.
I will definitely get an xPhone, and I hate what happened to Palm.