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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 22, 2024 17:41:48 GMT
Have you seen where in China there are replicas of streets in Britain which have classic English architecture, like for example one is a replica of a Yorkshire 18th century neoclassical facade, and there are others too. Well it is not only British classical architecture they bring back to life, but also many of the classic electronics products we manufactured back in the day. For example the classic of all classics in the audio market was the Quad amplifiers from Cambridge. They went bust years ago, but they sold off what they had at some auction and the Chinese stepped in and bought it at knockdown money and then go to work recreating their product line. I've just spotted another classic which only really the audiophiles of the 70s would have heard about. his name was John Lindsey Hood. The crack was back then if it was designed by him it was the dog's bollox, and he also wrote a few books on audio design which I might still own. I just checked and there is now a wiki page on him.
Which to be frank, I had no idea about until I looked him up, but his reputation as an audio designer was second to none.
So one thing he was known for was this.
It's rather incredible to see how a 1969 design was still relevant in 1996 and even more incredible that in 2024 it is still on the market, but now manufactured by the Chinese with their firm called Nobsound. By the way, nob is supposed to mean noble in this context, as in the sound an English gentleman would appreciate. It cracks me up, it really does that they can sell it with a straight face, but that's how bold they are. They really do not care for PR as our lot would.
The thing though was back in 1969 transistors were not nearly as linear as they are today, and nor were capacitors as close to the ideal capacitor as the ones they specially make for the modern audio market. So this is what they have done. They use a classic design with modern components and breathe fresh life into it. Anyway, here is what it looks like.
Do you recall that new edition of Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy where they made a film of it under the direction of Douglas Adams? Right at the end they added a bit where planet Earth was totally rebuilt by millions of identical short-looking chaps looking like workmen. I think this is some sort of allegory for the Chinese to come in a put Britain back together again. Recall the thing that blew it all way in the first place was the vogons who were bureaucratic nightmares who wanted everything in triplicate. This caused British industry to go to the dogs, but he was right - it is being rebuilt!
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Post by Vinny on May 22, 2024 19:47:07 GMT
So? If China was that good we wouldn't have Chinese refugees in our country. Fuck dictatorships.
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Post by Red Rackham on May 23, 2024 1:41:50 GMT
BvL, why are you such a flag waver for China?..
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Post by Dan Dare on May 23, 2024 7:56:55 GMT
He's like a Southern Evangelist who believes he knows how to create heaven on earth.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 23, 2024 9:02:06 GMT
BvL, why are you such a flag waver for China?.. You are just reducing what I was trying to say to your own shit ignorance. It's just there is more to the world than Daily Mail ignorance. None of you will have heard of John Linsley Hood. If you do not know this period in our history then don't blame me for it. I have stacks of electronic magazines with many articles by this man. He was a big name in audio design in the 70s. This is about intelligent design that just keeps on living through the ages, and the Chinese have brought it back to life all these years later. It's about design minimization which you really only appreciate if you can read a schematic diagram. These are skills I have. It's a shame the education is so dire these days. The small electronics firms of the past in Britain have all but disappeared. I'm glad the Chinese appreciate it. It takes intelligence to appreciate things. All you lot are interested in now is destruction. Here you all are trying to destroy the Chinese and having a go at me because I'm not following this idiocy. |
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Post by Vinny on May 23, 2024 9:09:43 GMT
 The one thing China's government is good at: Repression. |
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Post by Handyman on May 23, 2024 9:17:06 GMT
China's Communist Party has a great very efficient production line of Murdering many many Millions of its People over the years, no wonder the population keeps quite
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Post by Dan Dare on May 23, 2024 9:32:15 GMT
An interesting documentary on BBC4.
"A Storyville documentary that explores, in intimate detail, state surveillance and digital social control in China by following the experiences of two families and a journalist.
Zijuan Chen is fighting for the release of her imprisoned husband, human rights lawyer Weiping Chang, while trying to keep his memory alive for their son.
Wenzu Li and her newly freed husband, Quanzhang Wang, struggle against surveillance that is not only stopping him from being able to work but also affecting ordinary tasks like taking their son to school.
Journalist Sophie Xueqin Huang, a pivotal figure in bringing the Me Too movement to China, is at constant risk of arrest.
Chinese film-maker Jialing Zhang gives an exclusive and previously impossible intimate insight into the interior of China and tells a deeply disturbing story of how the state uses technology to control its citizens as well as propaganda to convince its people to trust it."
I wonder if the Baron will trouble to view it before condemning it as CIA-inspired dogshit or worse. I suspect not.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 23, 2024 10:21:47 GMT
An interesting documentary on BBC4.
"A Storyville documentary that explores, in intimate detail, state surveillance and digital social control in China by following the experiences of two families and a journalist.
Zijuan Chen is fighting for the release of her imprisoned husband, human rights lawyer Weiping Chang, while trying to keep his memory alive for their son.
Wenzu Li and her newly freed husband, Quanzhang Wang, struggle against surveillance that is not only stopping him from being able to work but also affecting ordinary tasks like taking their son to school.
Journalist Sophie Xueqin Huang, a pivotal figure in bringing the Me Too movement to China, is at constant risk of arrest.
Chinese film-maker Jialing Zhang gives an exclusive and previously impossible intimate insight into the interior of China and tells a deeply disturbing story of how the state uses technology to control its citizens as well as propaganda to convince its people to trust it."
I wonder if the Baron will trouble to view it before condemning it as CIA-inspired dogshit or worse. I suspect not.
I hate the BBC. The BBC is full of shit and full of ignorance. I see BBC journalists struggling to explain technical things. Electronics design is an art and John Linsley Hood created a work of art there which has had a cult following ever since. The proof is in the pudding and the sound of this amp is something special and highly rated. For a 1969 product it was high performance for cheap. We can't expect the current generation of British thickos to appreciate anything good of the past. They are just like you lot, fixated on violence and destruction, plus copious lies and whataboutery.
By the was a little while back there was this small Chinese firm doing these cheap class d amps on Ebay called Topping. A few years on and they have now reached number in technical performance. We never see industrial performance like that in the UK today. We have lost it and should expect a future of servitude to a more intelligent power. You bring it upon yourselves.
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Post by Red Rackham on May 23, 2024 10:31:31 GMT
BvL, why are you such a flag waver for China?.. You are just reducing what I was trying to say to your own shit ignorance. It's just there is more to the world than Daily Mail ignorance. None of you will have heard of John Linsley Hood. If you do not know this period in our history then don't blame me for it. I have stacks of electronic magazines with many articles by this man. He was a big name in audio design in the 70s. This is about intelligent design that just keeps on living through the ages, and the Chinese have brought it back to life all these years later. It's about design minimization which you really only appreciate if you can read a schematic diagram. These are skills I have. It's a shame the education is so dire these days. The small electronics firms of the past in Britain have all but disappeared. I'm glad the Chinese appreciate it. It takes intelligence to appreciate things. All you lot are interested in now is destruction. Here you all are trying to destroy the Chinese and having a go at me because I'm not following this idiocy. '! Listen you Chink appeasing tit, when it comes to China I don't give a flying fuck what you say. You're like a cracked record, you must be China's biggest fan in the western hemisphere. For some reason you never miss an opportunity to big up the biggest undemocratic authoritarian dictatorship in the world. I was merely asking, why? But on second thoughts, I don't give a fuck. Since you're such a Xi Jinping fanboy why don't you fuck off to you're beloved China? Like the slogan says: Support the country you live in, or live in the country you support. |
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Post by Dan Dare on May 23, 2024 10:35:25 GMT
"I hate the BBC. The BBC is full of shit and full of ignorance."
You may hate the BBC, but as far being full of shit and ignorance you're clearly too thick to have understood that the documentary in question is not a BBC production, but a film produced in China by Chinese people.
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Post by Vinny on May 23, 2024 10:50:05 GMT
You are just reducing what I was trying to say to your own shit ignorance. It's just there is more to the world than Daily Mail ignorance. None of you will have heard of John Linsley Hood. If you do not know this period in our history then don't blame me for it. I have stacks of electronic magazines with many articles by this man. He was a big name in audio design in the 70s. This is about intelligent design that just keeps on living through the ages, and the Chinese have brought it back to life all these years later. It's about design minimization which you really only appreciate if you can read a schematic diagram. These are skills I have. It's a shame the education is so dire these days. The small electronics firms of the past in Britain have all but disappeared. I'm glad the Chinese appreciate it. It takes intelligence to appreciate things. All you lot are interested in now is destruction. Here you all are trying to destroy the Chinese and having a go at me because I'm not following this idiocy. '! Listen you Chink appeasing tit, when it comes to China I don't give a flying fuck what you say. You're like a cracked record, you must be China's biggest fan in the western hemisphere. For some reason you never miss an opportunity to big up the biggest undemocratic authoritarian dictatorship in the world. I was merely asking, why? But on second thoughts, I don't give a fuck. Since you're such a Xi Jinping fanboy why don't you fuck off to you're beloved China? Like the slogan says: Support the country you live in, or live in the country you support. Well fucking said. |
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on May 23, 2024 10:56:25 GMT
"I hate the BBC. The BBC is full of shit and full of ignorance." You may hate the BBC, but as far being full of shit and ignorance you're clearly too thick to have understood that the documentary in question is not a BBC production, but a film produced in China by Chinese people. It's just nothing to do with the thread, except all you can do is find something to attack them with. I'm just so bored of it and it is the response of the Neanderthal waving his big angry stick. This is what is wrong with us as a nation. It is not the spirit of 1969 when the Brits were known for their talent in some fine industrial products. The talent that existed then has long been washed away and those electronics firms are probably supermarkets now or vape shops. It take a nation with technical know how to appreciate technical excellence. China dug it up and brought it back to life, and it makes me happy they do have such appreciation. It's like they have carried on where we left off. If only the Brits would get their heads out of their arses and get smart once again. I suspect it will never happen because there has been wholesale destruction of the institutions that educated the ones who led the way. Now all the plebs can do is badmouth the ones who can understand it. I've had this sort of treatment myself from the anti-intellectual movements operating in Britain. |
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Post by Vinny on May 23, 2024 11:02:59 GMT
Live in the country you support.
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Post by Handyman on May 23, 2024 11:06:31 GMT
"I hate the BBC. The BBC is full of shit and full of ignorance." You may hate the BBC, but as far being full of shit and ignorance you're clearly too thick to have understood that the documentary in question is not a BBC production, but a film produced in China by Chinese people. Exactly I agree 100% , they know they have to endure such a repressive brutal regime 24/7 and risk their lives getting the message out to the world, North Korea is just as bad total 100% control of the entire population, that nutter is building Nuclear Weapons whilst the people starve to death, and not for the first time either |
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