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Santa brought me a Nitty Gritty Basic record cleaning machine, and LedZep I & II from Classic Records.

Actually, the audiophile treats that I got are more accurately called treatments. I have a friend who designs, borrows, and creates room treatments. He is an excellent do-it-your-selfer who makes treatments that are as good, if not better than what you could buy in a high end audio store. This year for Christmas he gave me a set of extremely solid custom made speaker stands. By custom made, I mean that he measured my ear height in my listening chair and designed the stands to place tweeters at the optimum height for listening enjoyment. That was an exceptional Christmas gift. He also made a stand for my CD player that is also extremely solid. You could drive a semi through my listening room without the CD player vibrating in the least. An incredible and unexpected by-product of these gifts, was playing around with speaker placement to be sure of the "sweet spot" before securing the speaker stands into the cement beneath the carpet. I found that I was almost a foot off in my original placement. I am now hearing all of my CDs for the first time again. Christmas was very merry in my audio world.

...not only that, someone stole my LP of Gene Autry singing "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer." Bummer dude.

5 horsepower air compressor. Hey... there are other realities in this life. Like a good turntable.

What I got was a buzzing midrange from a speaker made by a company no longer in business. Santa treated my kitchen well, but he and his elves must listen to Lawrence Welk.

I got a stocking full of new SACDs, and I couldn't be happier. Oh, and an elf informed me that anyone who actually wants to see Sony fall flat on its face with this amazing new format would be added to Santa's "naughty" list next year. Apparently, such individuals have digitally watermarked souls . . .

I got several new CDs with HDCD encoding. I find it very satisfying that I can enjoy such a great format NOW while everyone just ignores this incredible technology. By the way, I have not yet heard DVD-A but I have heard SACD, and I think it sounds no better than HDCD.

I received Van Den Hul CS122 Speaker Cable, Kimber PBJ Interconnect, Kimber Hero Interconnect, one DVD Movie, and six CDs.

Monster Cable HTS1000 power conditioner

It's time for a power clean-up: I got a Chang Lightspeed 9600 & a Synergistic Research AC cord. Big improvements!

I got an MSB Link III with P1000 Power supply and 96khz Chip. DVD-A and SACD? Who cares, once you've heard this product in action? $900.00 delivered, and it will carry you through the next 4 years - maybe more, once MSB releases their 192khz chip.

Well, all I really got in the "audiophile" department was a gift certificate to my local dealer . . . but I did get the pair of Birkenstock's I've wanted for over two years now. Maybe I could have gotten them sooner if audio wasn't so damn expensive. But I guess you cant wear loudspeakers on your feet.

People shouldn't order for you in restaurants, buy your clothes, comb your hair, and they certainly shouldn't buy music for you, based on their tastes. The Eagles boxed set is waste -- you can tune in any radio station and hear enough Eagles for any lifetime.

I got a Coda-Continuum Unison Integrated amp from my parents. I think this is the best gift I've ever received. :)

I spent this Christmas in Hong Kong, and I purchased tons of audiophile-quality CDs that are normally not available in the States.

I got a Nitty Gritty 1.5FI Record Cleaner and some CD/vinyl gift certificates.

I received a STAX Signature System II.

why DVDs cost so much? Most of the movies being released have already amortized their costs, however DVDs' prices are simply shameful - my wish is that the public will punish such greedy companies.

Some CDs

Santa brought me just what I wanted, and then some. I got my new FlatCap 2. For low-end Naimies like me, it's the greatest thing since sliced bread -- or at least the Nait 5. And I got a boatload of great CDs to play through my improved rig. Haydn's complete piano sonatas! Three discs of Annie Fischer playing Beethoven's piano sonatas! Whew. A happy holiday season indeed.

I got a DVD-Audio player

I received a Nitty Gritty record cleaning machine and two Chesky CDs.

Far and away the best Christmas gift I received this year: I was taken to the Meyerson Symphony Center to hear holiday music performed by the Dallas Wind Symphony. A great time was had by all!

I am hurt.

No new gear this year but I got a pile of music from just about every genre. I haven't given up hope on the gear yet though. My birthday is on the 6th of January!

I have been so astoundingly good this year that my wife absolutely *insisted* that I purchase an SCD777ES for myself for Christmas . . . Stop laughing in the back there, it's true, I tell you . . .

I would like to see Avantegarde Audio build an entry level product - a book shelf version of their horns for about $500 a pair

I got a Sony SCD-1.

MI received Miles Davis' COMPLETE BIRTH OF THE COOL and the Beatles' 1.

U2 The Best Of 1980-1990 and Ladies And Gentleman...The Grateful Dead