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    OK, How Was Santa to You This Year? Naughty or Nice?

    Well, usually someone starts one of these threads and I was surprised to find nobody had yet, so I'll take the honours this year.

    It was, indeed, a very good year chez Kelman, getting both a combination of hard media and super high resolution digital downloads that absolutely would change the minds (and ears) of those who are naysayers about the validity of the format. Yes, some high res is a rip-off, just as remasters are, but the 9 titles I received are absolutely marvellous - in the case of the Joni Mitchells, especially Court and Spark and Hissing of Summer Lawns, it feels like she's singing in my living room, and I'm hearing a ton of details (the number of layered guitars, for one) that I'd never heard before.

    So, here's the picture..and the complete list:


    And the booty is:

    A. Hard Media:
    Magma - Köhnzert Zünd. Been waiting for this awhile, today's the day I crack it open, because the soft media was just too enticing.

    B. High Resolution Digital Albums, all at 24-bit/192Kbps (they sell at 24/96 but the extra resolution is absolutely palpable):
    1. My favourite run of Joni Mitchell albums (all I'd add is Blue and I'll be done): Court and Spark, The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mingus, Shadows and Light
    2. Two latter-day Miles albums (since I've been collecting his '60s period through Mobile Fidelity's SACD Hybrid series of hard media): Tutu and Amandla.

    With so many layers on the Miles albums, I'm hearing everything more clearly and on a more broadened soundstage, with a dynamic range that really does go from a whisper to a scream. Joni's records, especially the first two, come at a time when folks were often taking particular advantage of layering, and so, for example, the title track to Court and Spark has, at best count so far, three...possibly four guitars. I love being able to hear the detail.

    Detail which, of course, is revealed with absolute truth through my Tetra 333s.

    It was, indeed, a very, very happy Christmas. Thanks to my wonderful wife, Rio!

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    Quote Originally Posted by jkelman View Post
    Well, usually someone starts one of these threads and I was surprised to find nobody had yet, so I'll take the honours this year.
    You missed it, then:

    http://www.progressiveears.org/forum...r-The-Holidays

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gruno View Post
    And there's one on the WOT page too.

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    ^ You can't say we don't have things covered here at PE!

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    John, pardon my ignorance, but are Tetra 333's speakers or headphones?

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    The best present I received was my son Jonathan's transfer of all Wii games to the WiiU. Now I can play them on the WiiU Pad without tying up the TV.
    My other presents were a CD of Andrew Peterson's The Far Country, and 180G vinyls of Abbey Road, LZII, and DSOTM.

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    I got Dick!
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    Quote Originally Posted by adap2it View Post
    I got Dick!
    Cheney?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    John, pardon my ignorance, but are Tetra 333's speakers or headphones?
    Speakers: http://tetraspeakersonlinestore.com/...peakers-towers (there are models to fit all budgets; we were doing the renovation of a lifetime and so built in a serious sound system upgrade into it...and i'm so happy with it!)

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    Quote Originally Posted by adap2it View Post
    I got Dick!
    I'm sure that made both you and Dick very
    happy. :-)

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    Quote Originally Posted by adap2it View Post
    I got Dick!
    Wait, has Canadian Christmas happened yet?

    Surely your friends will come round bearing gifts this Wednesday? A six pack, at least?

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    I got a Kindle. I'm clueless. What am I supposed to do widdit?

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    Apparently I'm on the Naughty list because the only thing I got for Christmas was the receipts from gifts my wife bought for everyone except me. I guest my gift is the Mastercard bill.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic2012 View Post
    I got a Kindle. I'm clueless. What am I supposed to do widdit?
    Why you spend all your money at Amazon, silly boy
    "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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    Yes-Fragile SW remix (haven't had a chance to listen yet)
    Galactic- Into the Deep (really good)

    The showstopper, THRAKBOX. Pretty good year.

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    I bought myself a Dell XPS 8900, i7 chip, on Black Friday. Very happy with it. Sweaters and new slippers from my wife.
    My good friend Cone lent me the Jaco documentary and the new Weather Report-The Legendary Live Tapes before he
    headed off to India! What a guy!
    We're about to have the solar panels on our roof hooked up, so that's a gift to everyone, in a sense, though mostly us. Plug everything in!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic2012 View Post
    I got a Kindle. I'm clueless. What am I supposed to do widdit?
    I love real books, but I do enjoy my Kindle when on vacations because it takes up so little room. Also, you can read a lot of free, public domain books on them. I have one and gave my wife one this Christmas.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rapidfirerob View Post
    I bought myself a Dell XPS 8900, i7 chip, on Black Friday. Very happy with it.
    I hope it has a burner of some sort?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave (in MA) View Post
    That's prog porn!

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    Quote Originally Posted by adap2it View Post
    I got Dick!
    Not bad if you're a female.


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    Quote Originally Posted by markwoll View Post
    Why you spend all your money at Amazon, silly boy
    Got that. I'm supposed to "register" the thing. Guess I'll just use it to surf the web and post here. Most bars have wifi....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vic2012 View Post
    I got a Kindle. I'm clueless. What am I supposed to do widdit?
    Quote Originally Posted by markwoll View Post
    Why you spend all your money at Amazon, silly boy
    Quote Originally Posted by Vic2012 View Post
    Got that. I'm supposed to "register" the thing. Guess I'll just use it to surf the web and post here. Most bars have wifi....
    Or you could take up a new hobby, reading books. It doesn't cost anything to register and you can get public domain classics for free; that's what inspired me to finally read Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." The books you select are delivered wirelessly to your Kindle and it takes less than a minute; instant gratification!

    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    I love real books, but I do enjoy my Kindle when on vacations because it takes up so little room. Also, you can read a lot of free, public domain books on them. I have one and gave my wife one this Christmas.
    Mine gave me one for my birthday a couple of years ago. It was kind of a present to her too, since she doesn't like me hoardering my collection of paperbacks (we don't have or have room for a bookshelf in our home). I grew to love my Kindle pretty quickly. I do most of my reading on planes and my work has me flying a lot. I used to carry 1,000+ page books around with me, now I've got a collection of books stored in this thin little thing that you don't have to take out of it's case while going through airport security.

    As far as Christmas presents, my best one was a $50 gift certificate for Amazon. I bought 3 CDs with it:

    Soft Machine - Bundles
    Chick Corea Trio - Trilogy (3 disc set)
    John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (used to have it on vinyl, about time I restocked on CD)

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    The only thing I don't like about the Kindle is how it does away with the notion of page numbers and instead tells you where you are in a book by how long it MIGHT take you to finish it. That's pretty useless to me. Is there any way to change this?

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