What music or equipment gifts did you get for Christmas this year?


Merry Christmas All! My wife got me a VPI Analog Drive System this year of which I'm very impressed with so far. Anybody else get anything?
boxer12
Toshiba XR-9457 Discman for my Discmans collection. Christmas Miracle happened: it reads CDs so a simple recap should suffice.
My gift from my wife was neither audio equipment nor music.  She is always kind enough to listen to new cables or a reclocker or whatever, if I ask for her opinion but really has no interest in the hobby.  Me?  My fantasy career was to become a musician- a drummer.  But as things happened, I instead chose a career in biomedical research and only at the ripe old age of 55 did I realize that I could afford to buy myself a drum set.  All I can say is that it's a lot harder than it looks and I've probably sacrificed some hearing pretending to play them for the last 8 years.  Now as we look to downsize, it's pretty clear that the drum set will have to go- it's big and it's loud.  So my wonderful wife surprised me and bought me an electronic drum kit and I love it!  She loves it too since all she hears is tap-tap-tap but I hear real drums in my headphones.   And if you think this was really a gift to herself, just know that she never stopped me from buying any audio equipment ever.  I'm so lucky and grateful.

@boxer12

I'm feeling that it has now settled in, and it's break in period is over. I am quite pleased so far, but am experimenting with it running as a stand alone unit, or running it through my LS-27 line stage. Up untill just last week I have been using it as a stand alone, but now I'm routing it through the ARC again.  As I feel that the Manley is now past the break in period, I'll keep it running through the ARC for a week or two, and then switch back to the Manley running direct. Nice thing about the Manley is it does have one line stage in/out, and as I only have a TT and a CD player for sources, if the Manley is more to my liking I can eliminate the ARC completely. A more streamlined system, AND , I can sell the ARC and fund some power cords that I've got my eye on. :)

A few OOP sacd titles to add to my collection.
As above, I will second (The) Pink Floyd -Their Mortal Remains- book.
Christmas Present to me was an Adcom GFA-555se.

I've been a good boy this year, and Santa has SO rewarded me.

--Charles--