The quiet grid



"The Grid", as we audiophiles refer to it is the power in our neighborhood. You may or may not have what we call "clean" electricity. We have add on boxes that clean up your electricity if there is a problem.

Those very expensive two box units with separate power supplies solve the problem of clean electricity at a price.

I am a keen observer of "The grid"; I notice when there is a remarkable improvement in my audio for no apparent reason. The last time I noticed this, I listened to music all night long. It was on a Christmas Eve, and there was a foot of snow outside; that's when I determined this remarkable improvement was the result of a quiet "grid"; that's when there is almost no commercial or industrial activity on the "electrical grid" near you, and residential use is quiet as well.

Normally this only occurs for a short time, but it's been like that for days; this has never happened before. Our present COVID 19 lockdown condition has given us a super quiet grid. That means our modest rigs are equivalent to much more expensive rigs that have expensive power supplies.

I am going to take advantage of this by doing a lot of recording. (when my reel to reel gets out of the shop) It's extremely unfortunate that we have this super quiet grid as a result of COVID 19, but there it is.
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I should have called it, "Your Audio Journey In a Dystopian Future".  Thanks for your interest.........
I am an optimist.... But I understand very well your fears about this dystopian future in the making....I think that more than the 2 last wars, this crisis is the last chance for humans to be conscious of:

Life is the only valuable event, and gift, and reality, a bee or a flower being invaluable; money being only an abstract means to convey and serve life.... If we do not understand that, forget about us and our future... This crisis is a chemical and God given test, and it is not necessary to believe in God to see that....I dont believe myself....My computer exist even if I dont see it, it is working without my faith in it....Prime numbers infinite series is more solid reality than diamond, in fact diamond and atoms are only vapour, nothing to see there.... Blind beliefs pertain to the past, knowledge or death to the future, the choice is ours now....
It’s just like in the movie Prometheus, God sends a pestilence to Earth to reboot civilization. And it’s about 2000 years after death of you know who. It’s just like in the movie!
It’s just like in the movie Prometheus, God sends a pestilence to Earth to reboot civilization. And it’s about 2000 years after death of you know who. It’s just like in the movie!
Interesting movie and point...

But I think the pestilence is only a biological consequence of life.... Viruses are the cause of this marvellous gift to mammals: placenta bag...


https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mammals-made-by-viruses


In the long run viruses are our friends and only asked to be understood for what they are, like crocodiles, bugs, or some leaders....I bet some leaders are and has been  more destructive than many viruses....No need for names....