This year I did fairly well on the audio front. My wife gave me a nice recording of Handels Messiah. My dad gave me the LC-1 and A Belden 1694A from Blue Jean Cable. Also, a pair of Monoprice digital coax cables to use for comparison. I plan to use the identical pair to compare transports and then with the Belden to see if the cables make a difference in my system.
My wonderful wife gave me a complete Groneberg Cable set consisting of 2 one meter pairs of interconnects, a 1.5 meter pair of interconnects, and a pair of 20 foot speaker cables. I am in audio heaven.
An Amazon gift card that I used to buy a Squeezebox Duet. It's my very first foray into computer audio so nervous and excited. Just wish it would get here, I mean it's been two days already!
With my sainted wife's blessing, a Schiit (yes, pronounced like you think) Valhalla tube headphone amp and a used VTL 2.5 preamp to match with my long-dormant VTL ST-150 Amp (I haven't put up pictures of them yet on my system page). The VTL combination is amazing, and the headphone amp is very nice.
If you want a few laughs, visit the Schiit Audio website at schiit.com
My mom bought an old album collection from a freind of hers. About 600 albums and give them to me. Have not had a chance to really look through them, but most of them that i looked at seemed to be in playable shape. Want to clean them before i try to play them. What a great present.
I got corrected! The D-35 IS east indian rosewood and the D-18 has mohagany sides and back. Thank you Polk432 and hope you thoroughly enjoy those warmer rosewood tones!
Found a Sony STR v-3 at the local thrift store that after a little clean-up looks great and performs flawlessly. Also found a Presto k-8 portable record cutter that will cut mono 33 1/3 or 78 rpm records. Couldn't ask for a better "Bachelors Christmas".
I got an Ipad ii and I'll be damned if I can figure it out...I can wire and cable up a multi-channel home theater with my eyes closed but maybe some day I'll get this bugger working
Three new surround's. I added larger front main's a couple years back. The new surround's have much smoother ribbon tweeter's. The previous surround's had a 3.5 Hz peak of harsh horn distortion. Generally, I like smooth horns very much, too.
I chose the Legacy Marquis HD center and two matching Studio HD's surrounds. The timbre's and larger enclosed driver's sound great with the Yami's up front.
Polk432: A D-35 Mohogany sounds nice! I've wanted a D-35 or Colling's D1A/D1 for way toooo long. I demo'd a rare Martin Art's and Craft's Hog that was the best sounding acoustic I ever played - much like a D-35. It quickly got away...I added a Young Chang Studio upright piano that I enjoy playing very much. YC won a Steinway grand piano contract because their sound and build quality is excellent.
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