Is it okay to talk around your speakers?

Make sure your legal representative is present.

Luckily I live in a nunnery and everyone is sworn to silence.

Gawdbless is this where absolutely nothing happens... as in Any good music on around here?

Nope... I ain't heard nun yet.

I'm wondering if perhaps if the winery turned 'nunery', turned convent, were to subscribed to a vow of silence and banned iPods, you would indeed enjoy ONLY "The Sounds Of Silence"... Well that and bells of course.

Somewhere, somehow, someone in there is wearing ear buds…. I’m sure of it. No one can listen to Simon and Garfunkle forever.

How odd... I am sure I had posted already this delightful hermetic poem by one of the most unsung bards of our days. Mayhaps it fell victim to the vagueries of the benign 'probi viri' who so lovingly oversee all our Agonic deeds, and protect us from 1st amendment self-harm?

Yet, I thought the verses resonated profoundly with the escatological angst that permanes so many of us suffering audiophiles... Are any of our actions, words, or even occasional unkindly thoughts... harming our audio systems?

So, here are again, the immortal words of the transcendental genius of Donald Rumsfeld:

"As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know."
Donald Rumsfeld
"

Unknown unknowns sound most intriguing, don't they?