What have you been working on in 2020?

Bought and built a Nelson Pass Amp Camp Amp kit and both the experience and the outcome were very satisfying. The marketing for the kit claims that anyone can build it. Since I had some soldering/kit experience, starting with a Dynaco SCA-35 kit more than fifty years ago and a few other very small projects through the years, plus a lot of time on my hands, I went for it.

It does require a decent soldering iron and accessories, good quality solder and an assortment of basic tools but anyone with those, some patience and the ability to carefully follow directions and not get in a hurry could do it.

It was a big success, no smoke came out when I turned it on. The casework is very attractive and the sound is astonishingly good for the price of less than $400, better than many of the amps I’ve owned at multiples of the price. It's not quite up there with my Raven Audio Blackhawk but you could buy ten of the kits Highly recommended as a way to pass the time with the addition of a great piece of gear.

1. I rebuilt the crossovers on the speakers in my secondary system.
2. I added additional treatments in my dedicated room.
3. I ordered a Swarm system for the dedicated room.  Duke gets the     cabinets this week.   I hope I will have the Swarm in my room before the end of the month.  I expect to spend most of September dialing in Swarm placement and finishing room treatments.
4. Today  I ordered SR orange fuses to try out on my M-60 amps.
5. I really need to sell my Frankenstein amps.  I just hate selling stuff and keep putting it off. 

Swarm was last year for me. You are gonna love it. Way easy to set up- put em near corners, adjust levels, enjoy. I hate selling stuff too but turns out its worth it if you use the proceeds to buy Tekton.

Changes to my main system thus far :
Sold my Aqua Acoustic LaVoceS3 and replaced it with a Mojo Audio EVO DAC. Sold the Cambridge Audio CXC cd transport that was in my second system, moved the one from my main system to the 2nd, and have a SimAudio 260d transport on order; hopefully will have that  by end of August. Added a CIA LPS to my Wadia 171i transport, LessLoss Firewall for Speakers ,  a couple of Audio Art Cable power 1 eplus Cryo power cords, and have  some Daedalus speaker DIDs on the way.

I relentlessly video my violin playing in a quest to to get fully at ease in front of the camera.  I sit at the piano and patiently tackle Scott Joplin and Frederic Chopin.  I scour my way through Primephonic and Qobuz in a quest to hear every recorded performance of pieces that push my emotional buttons.  As for the stereo itself?  Apart from minor tweaks in speaker placement (I'll move a speaker a couple of degrees inward, then outward, then put 'em parallel), I just sit there and enjoy.