In the middle of a pandemic, Stereophile reviews ~ $30K equipment

@teo_audio
You put the offal in one sock, thus avoiding the mess kit.  Simple puppy principle in action.

I'll never understand how some fall for the patently stupid propaganda. This is not some kind of flu. I remember when the naysayers were wetting themselves over the coverage and complaining about how the regular flu kills 40-70K people a year and only 38 have died so far. And that was around the month and a half mark. Look at it now and we're only in the 5th month.

When I had my surgery yesterday, one of the nurses told me a friend of hers was on vacation, skiing in Italy when it all started, and he caught the virus over there. He went through the pneumonia stages and survived that and now he's experiencing the minor blood clotting and has to have some of his fingers amputated. 

It attacks most of your organs, not just the lungs. It hits people in different ways. One patient back east went through eight blood transfusions as it kept destroying all his red blood cells.

Some people who have survived need two different types of inhalers to keep breathing. One is a healthy, 33 year old journalist who used to jog regularly. Just last week it was floated that this may end up being endemic like HIV and be with us forever. 

All the best,
Nonoise

Re: expensive gear 

I try to remember a few things that give context to the discussion.
1. By definition, most of us have failed to make it into the 1%, or even into the top 5%. We have no conception of their decision making process. 2. Their fortunes finance our equivalent of the space program, hence many of the incredible toys that trickledown to larger (if not mass) markets.
3. People are apparently buying the stuff—new and used—at these prices. Until they adjust their behavior the situation will sit.
4. Look for big changes everywhere by the holidays.

mijostyn,

You're right in that mortality rates for other ailments are plumetting but the gruesome reason might not be the massaging of stats that has been reported.

It could also be that Coronavirus is getting to those unfortunate people first. It's well established that those with underlying conditions are at the greatest risk.

As nonoise posted above, we still don't know (or haven't been told yet) of the long term after effects of this disease.

Let's try to stay safe, at least until we have a whole load more of the facts. Should be interesting to see what the effects have been on those affected pro athletes once sports are back up and running.

But I agree with you about the amp.