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Christmas Music and Audiophiles?
More and more good sounding Christmas stuff lately - "The McGarrigle Christmas Hour" is great. Shelby Lynne's is good. Emmylou Harris "light of the stable". Dean Martin's got a good one too. A new favorite of ours is Sloan Wainwright's "On a Night... 
No Audiophiles in Hollywood
House lists Sota at the end of the program. I don't watch it, but love Castle and that apartment is great. Haven't seen stereo in it yet, but the last two shows have shown a very big flat screen up on the wall.Covert Affairs shows a nice rig in th... 
Your ONE all time favorite love song?
Larry: I'm a big fan of this song as well - for me it's owned by Joan Osborne. 
What started you on your audiophile journey .
Music was always playing at our house. My systems started with my Dad buying me a suitcase styled orange and white turntable with built in speakers at about age 10. Been upgrading ever since and no plans to ever stop! 
Are you an Audiophile?
One of my coworkers in trying to understand my love of music and audio proclaimed to all "Cathy is an AUTO FILE"! 
The Audiophile's Wife
That was fun - sharp writing and rings true! I bookmarked this one and look forward to the next addition. 
Do you understand the words to the Mus U listen to
I do think clarity is the result of good upgrading. When we switched to power cords and dedicated lines I found a few lyrics that I hadn't caught before became intelligible. It shows more clearly that some changes to the system are truly worthwhil... 
Do you understand the words to the Mus U listen to
There are the classic misunderstandings:1. "every time you go away, you take a piece of meat with you" (Paul Young"2. "there's a bathroom on the right" (Creedence Clearwater Revival)3. "scuse me while I kiss this guy" (Jimi Hendrix) 
How Long Ago Since You Cried Listening To Music?
This summer when hearing k.d. lang sing Hallelujah live at Wolftrap. The crowd gave her a six minute standing ovation. 
Hurricane Irene
Yes, electricity is back tonight! No phone service though and Internet is down so still no squeezebox music. Contents of frig gone. ... Sweetest sound tonight -a/c and the clunking of the ice maker. I knew there was a reason speedos scared me! 
Hurricane Irene
Things beginning to calm now. No power so no tunes. Wild winds today here outside Richmond. A few fatalities reported. 
Favorite Female vocals that give you goose bumps
kd lang's voice breaking on Halleluia Anna McGarrigle's ethereal voice joining sister Kate on Heart like a Wheel 
How old is too old?
Never too old! I am about to turn 57 and have just had the best time this year upgrading my speakers, getting Squeezeboxed, dac'd and finally upgrading power cords and dedicated lines. My system has never sounded better, even as my ears get older.... 
Power Cord for Wyred 4 Sound DAC2
I have changed my DAC2 power cord for the Pangea 14se cord. I did find very noticeable improvements, but I changed all the power cords at once so can't really say what exact improvements were attributable to the DAC. I also recently added 2 dedica... 
Anyone using Squeezebox server on Mac OS X?
I have upgraded to Lion, updated squeezebox and am not having any issues at all. I did have to upgrade the squeezebox and re enter passwords etc. initially.