The only audio Christmas presents I'll ever get are the ones I buy for myself. My family will never spend that amount of money on audio for me. I have gotten some CD gift certificates to Amazon which is great, because I buy lots of cd's from them.
That being said, I bought myself a new pair of Placette Audio XLR interconnect cables to go from my Empirical Overdrive SE dac direct into my Pass Labs XA30.5 amp. These cables are just awesome and I love 'em. Totally transparent, like liquid clear water.