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RIP Pongo, looks like a good friend.....

In Dusty's words....yeezh! Stay warm, Ian and family!!

Congrat....and WHOA! (Room and bombs respectively).

Remembering Greg Lake (and Keith Emerson)

Jesuit Christmas! Hope it goes well and you heal quickly!

Hope you're OK, lefty.....(seriously, I do)

Well, goddamnedmotherfuckingshitkicking 2016......! How much more can we take? RIP Mr. Glenn, a hero to many....

Aw, fuck.....was hoping to end 2016 a little more quietly. RIP. A great voice and talent. FUCK cancer! FUCK 2016!

Lots of luck and success!

Unfortunately, no go for me Nate. Would love to see everyone, meet or no meet! But as usual, family plans are made well ahead of time.....damn that social wife of mine, why can't she be more a hermit curmudgeon like her husband.....

RIP JK, way too young.....

Thanks All! Had my annual fish dinner, local restaurant does this great dish with baked fish (used to be catfish, now snapper) in a jambalaya like sauce with andouille sausage, shrimp, and some veggies over rice. Accompanied by a nice IPA, and apple crisp dessert. Fat, dumb and happy. Life is good, especially so for a night.

We don't need no steenkin' amps! Yes, of course. They did have a decent Unison amp to drive them, plenty of power and sounded good, given the source weakness.....

I picked up the Utopia recently, echo John's comments regarding sound. This weekend I was at a local dealer's, they had the Elear and Utopia out for listen. Indeed, not exactly the same sound signatures. Elear is still quite good at $1k, but Utopia is definitely more refined, better highs, more balanced overall, and more transparent. The bass on the Elear seemed fuller, but the Utopia is MAYBE as deep but definitely a bit more controlled IMO. EDIT: BTW, driven by an Arcam CD player, so source wasn't up to snuff. Told them they should put in a new source or set up a good DAC. So my observations could even be understated.....

Happy Birthday Tom! May it be filled with wine, women and song.....the latter two with Noo Yawk accents!

Love this album! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

RIP to all our pet friends, condolences to all.....

^^^ This....losing lives sucks....losing childrens' lives sucks BAD

Happy Birthday! And what Dusty said....miss you!

RIP to many of the Brazil Chapecoense soccer team.....such a tragedy..... http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/plane-carrying-brazils-chapecoense-soccer-team-crashes-colombia-n689416

Happy Birthday!! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

Thanks all! We're pretty damn proud of him. Now if he'd only clean his room

Happy Birthday! We'd love to see you more, and not just on Mike's avatar!

RIP Sharon....great clip Antonio!

The new Elac UniFi series should be really good for relatively cheap $. I had the Debut B6 from the first series designed by Andrew Jones. A little soft up top, but good deep bass and otherwise lovely sound, all for $280/pr. The new $500/pr UniFi UB5 bookshlves should be more extended up top, with a 5" mid-bass driver and concentric mid-tweeter combo. The UF5 is a floorstander for $1k/pr. The Pioneer models he designed I thought were very good, but the Elac Debut B5's and B6's were leaps and bounds ahead IMO. They also make a sub and center if you want to try to go 5.1+