Some problems are interesting, to some people, until they are solved, or forgotten.

Four degrees of separation time: following WW2, Bletchley Park became the Post Office Research Center. Some years after Turing's death, one Mike Skeet started working there," who later contributed the infamous ""Garage Door"" track to the first Hi-Fi News Test CD", which I produced in 1985. I wouldn't go so far as saying that in England everyone actually knows everyone else, but it is almost a small-enough country for the degrees of separation to be smaller than anywhere else, save perhaps Holland, Denmark or Japan!

I loved that garage door track! Best ever demo was Apogee Scintillas driven by monster Krell monoblocks—I always wondered if those ribbons had an advantage over other transducers in getting that dynamic rattle going. Will that track show up on Engineer's Choice II?

Apogees, yes. Although," we must approach these ""stunt listening"" tasks with caution. Remember the ""sound of a car door slamming"" listening tests that revealed Klipschorns to be the most ""accurate?"" Was it Dick Olsher who did that?

If you're fond of watching English drama and comedy reruns on TV, you would be forgiven for thinking that there are only 14 actors working in the UK. On any given night, these 14 get murdered on Morse, yuk it up with Harry Enfield, relive the 50s with Ma and Pa Larkin, gather in small Yorkshire villages, buy and sell forged antiques, and tell porkies to Inspector Frost.