I have some Micca bookshelf speakers powered by a Fosi v3 (32v). Currently just have a small tv connected via 3.5 mm to RCA, where we just stream music via youtube. I recently brought home a few hundred CDs that had been in my parents closet for the last 15 years. I'm an audio noob, but like the idea of mostly playing music at home on physical media. I still have an external cdrw drive and a decent collection of albums purchased on bandcamp too.

I'm thinking about buying a Fosi Merak CD player and GR40 preamp to do the switching (and occasional phone streaming via bluetooth), total $260. Is this overkill for a pair of bookshelf speakers? And if so, would this system still be useable if we upgrade the speakers/add a subwoofer someday?

Thanks for any insights on this.

[–] 3 points 1 year ago

No. As the article says, this requirement was implemented under the Biden administration. Trump is just pushing the deadline to comply forward by 6 months as a way to pressure Springer Nature into doing what he wants.

The greed of the publishing industry and the barriers they put up to access is well known. Trump here is trying to tarnish the integrity of federally funded science by going after a big dog publisher (just like his obsession with attacking Harvard) and threatening to cancel subscriptions the federal govt has. This would make access to information even harder. These subscriptions, as overpriced as they may be, are critical to the jobs of federal scientists.

Look at the totality of what Trump and the GOP is doing to gut science, outlined in project 2025 and in the latest budgets. Sure, I normally wouldn't mind seeing publishers sweat a little, but the reason they're losing a large chunk of their revenue stream is because federal funding for science has taken a huge hit.

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