Did Santa bring any hifi/music related gifts?
Posted by: Bob the Builder on 26 December 2017
The Hacienda How Not to Run a club - Peter Hook
Miles The Autobiography - Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads DVD
What's Goin On - Marvin Gaye (4 disc half speed Abbey Rd remaster box set)
My 555PS was an early, ahem....’gift’ agreed by my wonderful wife.
G
GraemeH posted:My 555PS was an early, ahem....’gift’ agreed by my wonderful wife.
G
You have a very generous and understanding wife, Graeme.
Rather than Santa bringing me HiFi gifts I turned into an elf this year: I made a set of cables for Santa to give to someone else.
They were tested against a set of Chord Signature. The replacements won.
Nice one ....Elf Huge
MDS posted:GraemeH posted:My 555PS was an early, ahem....’gift’ agreed by my wonderful wife.
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You have a very generous and understanding wife, Graeme.
...indeed. It is a non DR S/H version mind. Her generosity and understanding would not withstand a new model!
G
“Swiss Precision”, a book about the TD-124 and other early tables and arms.
Ortofon Quninet Blue and Arcam rPhono to go with / between existing Project Xperience and NAC-N 272. And a variety of boys (and girls) on the black stuff...
Some rather nice B&W PX noise cancelling headphones (for travelling) to go with my Pioneer XDP-100R digital audio player/Chord Mojo DAC (can use wired with DAC or wireless with DAP). Sounds rather good!
Also received the ELO live at Wembley CD/BluRay set as well as the George Michael ‘Listen Without Prejustice’ Box set.
Quite a few HDR BluRays to play on the Oppo UDP205 as well (Bladerunner, Baby Driver, Harry Potter box set, Wonder Woman, Dunkirk, Terminator (Genisis)).
Also gift of time to be able to spend listening to the system..... the greatest gift of all!
Have postponed gift of change of US to Core until Core’s firmware development issues/functionality further ironed out.
Happy Holidays to everyone.
ATB. G
My brother gave me 2 brand new 180g LPs. Alan Parsons “I robot” and Santana “ Moonflower”. However, I do not have a record player, having gone the streaming route! Might have buy a cheap record player to plug into the. 272 now!
Also I have on trial a 2nd hand SL Din-xlr between the 272 and 250DR as a possible gift to myself, but not hearing the benefits do far.
Klipsch X20i ear buds
Yes the Pinkfloyd book and some Imelda May on vinyl.
An unexpected gift from an unexpected source, Tom Petty ‘Full Moon Fever’ not been able to give it a spin yet, so absolutely no idea if it’s any good?
A brilliant album. I wore out my first vinyl copy back in the day. I still have a second one that I bought in later years but haven’t played it in many a year. Which is a good reminder to do so...
Now I’m intrigued, could well be an unexpected ‘gem’ going by your recommendation
Robert Plant 'Carry Fire' on CD. Very welcome.
Not for me but I gave my brother in law a Sonos Connect + a Tidal subscription. We spent the evening comparing the digital source vs his Linn LP12.
Clearly his system is optimized for vinyl but the Sonos was definitely listenable. Once I get my new DAC I'm going to gift him my Berkeley Alpha which should provide significant improvement compared to his current DAC.
GraemeH posted:My 555PS was an early, ahem....’gift’ agreed by my wonderful wife.
G
+1 (sort of)
I persuaded SWMBO to let me buy the leprechaun green PRS Custom 24 I'd had my eye on for a while.
John
HMV gift cards. Lovely!
Stu
Scansonic portable dab+/FM radio. Use in garage and garden. Model I ordered was out of stock so they upgraded to a better one with rechargeable battery, Bluetooth and aux in.
Willy.