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There's a reason the French are known for their wines.... Near my in-laws is a dive called Dick's Pourhouse. We should do a tour of bars called Pourhouse some year.

Have a great one fellas! Cheers!

You carry your years well, Brian. Have a great one! Cheers

Happy birthday you "football" lover, you! Cheers!

Jitter in the Shitter in 2011!

You need to find the old ones to save your father from disappointment. They could go bad, you know.

Fuck! I hate that fucking cunt Ben Gramain!

Before: The Police -- Ghosts in the Machine (SACD) After: The Who -- My Generation (SACD)

Hope you had a great one Steve! Looks like it was a fun party. Cheers!

Happy Birthday Chris! May all your audio dreams come true.... Cheers!

Shame on you indeed, Ian. Fishski has botched up the rules and has included albums not released this year. I have not posted in protest while waiting for you to initiate the proper "Best albums of 2010" thread. Furthermore, your lack of posting in the WAYLTN thread has caused me to miss Zo

For Knuckles: I got a DJ Lance Rock Dunny in my stocking for Christmas. I thought it would make you smile somehow.

It's a trap! [/Akabar]

Sorry Manuel. I hope you can get it out if the way now and start 2011 off healthy!

I think Jacob's meds kicked in and he decided to alter the thread title a bit.

The model for this thread is album art plus text containing the artist and album title in the post. It is easier for searching, but especially important when your album art contains nary a letter.

That is even more expansion/contraction than I would have expected and I'm sure all of what you say is completely accurate, Craig, but the main reason for the fitting issue is that I had version 1 racks and then he changed the design of the shelves when he created a version 2 rack. When he originally replaced the shelves but not the posts, he told me that the v.2 shelves were slightly larger but thought they would work with the v.1 posts. The new shelves then sat in my house in essentially the same room as the racks for 5 months ( ) so I would think that humidity issues should have equalized by then. Who knows, but I think the v.2 units have different enough tolerances that it really doesn't work to mix and match with the old version. He is picking up all the pieces tomorrow and returning assembled racks early next week. Pretty damn good service, especially with the New Year's holiday in the middle.

Whirl is really good, and Toots is always fun times.

Anna Luna -- Sketches From the year before last's holiday gift exchange. Thanks again Antonio!

Vijay Iyer -- Solo

Hey, me too, or three, or four, or whatever.

Sorry to hear of your burst pipes, Craig, but glad it was at least outside so that water didn't damage the house. Seems like the East coast storm was real enough. Hope you are all powered up and warm by now. I wasn't snowed out, but decided I wasn't quite ready for work in the office today. Update to the rack story above. Arnold of Core Audio Designs emailed back within a couple of hours max and offered to come by and pick up all parts and then return within the week with fully assembled racks. Seems like a good deal to me under the circumstances. I was wishing that Steve or Nate or somebody with skilz and toolz lived a little closer because it was take a little time to re-size the dados but I imagine it wouldn't be too difficult for you guys. Anyway, this is a good solution and he is falling all over himself to make it right.

I took apart my entire main system at home in order to replace the shelves of my Core Audio racks that had some problems with the veneers cracking. Arnold of Core Audio delivered the free replacement shelves months ago and said that the new design might require a little beeswax (provided) and elbow grease to fit into the notches on the old upright pieces. After dismantling two racks I tried to rebuild one to no avail because the new shelves simply do not fit the old uprights. I banged up the corner of one shelf without making any real progress and then tried the top piece which sits down into a notch rather than sliding into it like the bottom shelves. The screw-holes do not line up at all. Now, my system and the shelves and crap are all piled in the space and I cannot play music. I am sure Arnold will make this right by giving me replacement parts, but I have to say I am pretty pissed that I got so far and then had to abort.