Any audio gifts for Christmas?

hi sean,

yup, the p-car is lotsa fun. my car-buying habits compare a *lot* to my stereo-buying habits - champagne taste, beer budget! :>) the pantera is the only mid-engined italian exotic i'll likely ever be able to afford. that pedestrian cleveland works, tho, when ya step on the gas. and, for the price of a toon-up on an entry-level v8 ferrari, i will have a built, 475hp cleveland installed, w/the original 300hp stocker as a back-up. :>) it's an early '72, w/all original styling cues intact, & that's how i like it.

the *regular* cars chez-sedon - three alfas - also attest to my exotic taste/plebean budget. yust *one* new m-series bmw, for example, would cost more than i paid for *all* my rides, including the '78 ducati darmah, the '88 craftsman garden tractor, & the '95 buell s2... ;~) and, still leave someting for cheapskate audio deals! :>)

i hope that plastic-fantastic wonder of yers keeps a smile on yer face - it definitely is a looker (63-67 vintage, right?) but i like the pantera cuz it still rides & handles like a modern sports-car. puts a smile on my face everytime i drive it. & the wife likes to drive it, too, yust like she enjoys the audio rig! :>)

ok, now for the required audio content: there's an in-dash tape deck & 6-cd changer in the trunk, that came w/the pantera when i bought it, & i dunno how to work it! and, no one in pantera-dom will trade me a radio blank-off plate & uncut inside door panels w/o speaker holes, for the system... ;~)

regards, doug s.

hey david99 - someone up & *gave* ya a tuna? pretty cool. i've also received a *lot* of nice vinyl gratis, from an a-phile & a-gon member - ain't the internet grand? :>)

that gft1-a is a real sleeper - it will take a big step to significantly better it, & no, an md-101 won't do the trick... the micropurl should definitely be a worthwhile improvement over the typical cheap rat-shack-type cabling - hell, it's probably more expensive than the tuna itself! :>)

doug s.

slingshot, you definitely got the best present on *this* list! enjoy the music! :>)

doug s.,

i tink my 6-yr old & 10-yr old are finally done knocking over my speakers, & they *love* the toons! :>)

One of the nicest people I know got me a pair of Rockport Antares :) My lovely Ex, via the kids got me a pair of long underwear. I'm working on the Jungian/Freudian significance of that. I've subsequently put a large note on the Rockport crates that reads 'From your loving wife". I walk out into the freezing garage in my new long underwear just to read it, over and over and over..........:)

Yep! The great little Tivoli Audio radio designed by Henry Kloss. Have it in my office where for the first time I can actually get a listenable KANU, the U.of Kansas NPR outlet which plays mostly classical music for much of the day. My son bought it for me in Minneapolis for less than half the MSRP, because it was being sold as part of an inventory liquidation in the aftermath of a fire at a Sound Advice store in Florida! Apparently they were also selling some Krell & Conrad-Johnson stuff at comparable reductions.