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  • Jony Ive designs $60,000 turntable for Scottish hi-fi pioneers

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    jimh2 said:
    beowulfschmidt said:
    Words are inadequate to express my bewilderment.
    If you are unfamiliar with the high end audio world then the price of this product is a shock, but what you do not know is the high end audio world has no problem paying insane dollars chasing perfect sound. Interconnects and speaker wire costing thousands of dollars, supports for holding speaker wire above the floor, amongst a ton of snake oil. There is no question that as you move up the cost chain there are improvements but they diminish fairly quickly when you move much above $10K. The improvements are there, but most would not care. The craziest waste of money I have seen is a network switch being sold as an "audiophile" switch. It is a relabeled cheap switch that is sold for more than $500. You have to go to an audio forum to see how insane the claims are. 
    While there is lots of snake oil in the hi-fi accessories world, using that term when discussing a Linn turntable is quite disingenuous, they've been making fantastic products for decades.
    It always amuses me to see how judgmental people are about money wrt things like this, people have no qualms spending that on a hulk of polluting metal that depreciates quickly from the moment you buy it yet a device that will produce a lifetime of enjoyment is somehow "bewildering".
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  • Streaming accounted for 84% of the music industry's revenue in 2022

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    lkrupp said:
    Just spoke with a friend whose collector son passed away and she was dealing with over 15,000 78RPM records she needed to dispose of. Luckily someone came and picked them all up. He also had 14,000+ electronic vacuum tubes stashed in his basement.

    danox said:
    You will own nothing and be happy, every DVD and every CD that I have, I will hold on tight until the end.
    And you probably haven’t stuck any of them in a player in years, right?
    Yeah, that didn't happen.

    Also, artists have never received so little for their work in history, enjoy your smug pride at cheerleading that.
    danoxwilliamlondon

  • tvOS bug limits 128GB Apple TV 4K to 64GB

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    johnwhite1001 said:
    People are far more likely to actually work harder if they are at the office where they can be observed.   This one Apple Guy that lives near me spends almost all day out in his yard playing with his dogs.
    People really shouldn't post nonsense like this, it is simply not true.
    Professional software engineers do not sit and do nothing unless a manager is hovering over their desk, it's not the 50s.
    Do you really think it's not blatantly obvious in hardware/software development how much work is being done working remotely or not.

    This is from a Software Engineer who has been working from home for 2 years and has seen our productivity and happiness increase.
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