Historically a turntable sitting directly on top of, or in close proximity to a speaker is about as bad as one could get when it came to reducing unwanted interaction. The reasons for this aversion to all in one designs are well founded and numerous, first and foremost-resonance (aka vibration), the dreaded enemy of all turntables, tonearms, and styli. Separates rule the day in audiophile land. While those of us of a certain age may harken back romantically to the behemoth all in one console HiFis our parents and grandparents owned, owning an all in one, let alone using one to play our precious records, is another thing entirely. Until now all in one turntable solutions, think Crosley, have largely been anathema to most self respecting audiophiles, long derided by turntable cognoscenti, and the punchline of many high end audio jokes. ![]() Because when the masses are in peril, nothing says “we see you” like a film about self-absorbed people.With their Model-One Turntable Music System, MA based Andover Audio has achieved the seemingly impossible by creating a stylish all in one turntable, speaker, DAC, amp, and Bluetooth enabled preamp combination that even picky audiophiles like me can easily fall in love with. No one is depicted helping to fight the disease. The film’s cynical attitude in general.Īgain, Songbird’s angle seems to be that COVID-19 is going to send us into a new Stone Age and it’s just not fair and we should break free. So much for all the good-faith “COVID-19 doesn’t have to be a death sentence” talk of recent months. Nope! It’s invasive and oppressive and a threat in Songbird. Cool, right? Seemingly free and socialized testing. screening for illness on everyone’s smartphones. There’s a plot point about a daily 9 A.M. Songbird is weird about tech and innovation. And people freak out about free daily mobile app screenings that detect the disease, which…Ġ4. ![]() There’s talk of three-week quarantines, when the CDC just started talking about 10-day quarantines. Nico drops parcels in UV cleaning boxes, but research already suggests it’s not necessarily surfaces we should worry about. Wild gesticulations are made, and the science already seems … off. Granted, that’s the risk you take in making a movie about a moving target of a disease with little research at hand. Perhaps we can chalk this up to the story being written in spring and filmed in late summer, but the science is annoying if not downright stupid. ![]() In short, here’s a story about generally self-centered people making bad excuses in a movie that was developed at a time when we understood even less about COVID-19, a film that utilizes sweeping generalizations and fear tactics to make a dirty buck off your worries and fears. The two must beat the odds, facing off against a gun-toting Department of Sanitation and a population quickly decaying into madness. Songbird focuses in on a tense, obnoxiously plotted young lovers’ story between paralegal-turned-courier Nico (K.J. The poor are roamers, apartment dwellers, and YouTubers trying to make a buck while minding their time inside. The rich pay couriers for illegal “immunity” bracelets that offer access across heavily-armed checkpoints. The American public is in a gestapo-like state of permanent lockdown until further notice to try and mitigate the evolving damage of COVID-23. But Songbird will have none of that today. Maybe “normalcy” can resume by next summer. The Pitch: It should be noted, before sharing the plot of Songbird, that Pfizer, Moderna, and a growing number of other medical companies are rolling out vaccines for the novel coronavirus while public health experts suggest these vaccines may be highly effective.
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