Who said there would be no punishment?

Can you explain why society didn't collapse when we went from the 19th century's 100 hour work week to the the 40 hour work week?

Can you explain what all this technology is for and what we are producing if we are all working so hard?

And why have we gone back to 19th century levels of "work" when both heads of the family work, it adds up to a hundred hour workweek.

Why? What for? Who benefits?

What is "work"? What do you do that convinces a farmer to feed you every day?

It's just a social convention.

Why can't we go to a 20 hour workweek? Why do you assume that every person is the same and will automatically revert to savagery just because they have to work less?

I'm the innocent one?

That's nice, so you think people are self-destructive by nature and no attempt should be made to have a rational social model, as long as the powerful get what they want, even if we're awash in surplus capacity and resources.

Wonderful.

"It is simply not possible to get a full-wave 20kHz signal out of a standard 44kHz sample rate,"

What the hell are you babbling about? A 44.1KHz system is band-limited to 22KHz and you can ONLY get a sine wave out with two data points!

Jesus Christ already!

What does "full wave" mean anyways? Are you one of those types that throws technical-sounding jargon around without a clue?

Maybe to a mundane person, but anyone with at least the curiosity of a mollusc might try to understand something beyond the level of the UI.

And for the 50Hz/60Hz difference.

"Audio is just a crazy world of snake oil and placebo."

So is software...

Aren't we supposed to be "sapiens"?

Are you implying that a continuous growth economic model will magically bypass real physical limits? The current culling program of permanent wars, police state, homelessness, crippling medical costs, and poverty is acceptable, though?

In what way does a leisure society imply "culling"? Why such a simplistic two option world?

Can you explain how a record works? You can see the squiggle and even play it back with a sharp piece of plastic and you can hear the sound.

Now explain every bit in a MP3 and how the processor works.

You're confusing convenience with complexity.

That's just a social model, a human convention. We will have to do away with "growth" as the "#1 model over all else" mentality we have. It works now and then, but it basically ignores all the productivity gains and technology we have.

What's wrong with a leisure society and guaranteed minimum livable conditions for all? And for the people with weird wiring who absolutely must have an owner or must dominate others or must have a bigger car, let's put them in a reserve and watch them fight over artificially scarce resources...

Oh wait, that's Monday morning. Shit.

Man, I don't know what reel to reel is "dramatically" less than a digital source. My TEAC X3 and Pioneer RT-909 sound just fine.

Yeah and the scope has a bandwidth in the megahertz, those steps aren't going to be in the output signal to the speakers, and even if they were they would be smoothed out (filtered) by the speaker crossover and the mechanical time constant of the speaker parts.

And then there's the air, those steps aren't going through the air...

So will you, and that's the human aspect of it.

Exactly, and if I made 5000$/hour and worked 40 hour weeks, I'd make 200000$ a week, you don't have to believe it, the math just works.

That's the beauty of maths!

Oh, it has no meaning in the real world and there are no jobs that pay 5000$ an hour for the vast majority of the human race?

But the math works!!!!

My point is that math is just a concept, sound is real and how you perceive it is all the evidence you should need.

It's like food, I'm sure you can measure every spice down to the genetic level but I still might not like the taste.

Yeah but unless you have the speakers and room and amplifier to go with that dynamic range (on what music? Today's music is so compressed a Fisher Price cassette deck is hi-fi), it's wasted information.

Oh and it's "niche".

And why does everything need to have "growth"? Only cancer has continuous growth. What if there's enough demand to keep some local technical people gainfully employed in the West?

Sure it's not the same kind of jobs our parents had, with job security, health insurance, benefits, and a retirement fund, but can we please still chase the few crumbs that are left to the common folk?