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50 and cloudy here. Making chili using a chuck roast. 10 hours in the crock pot so should be ready for dinner.

Happy New Years gents. Spent the afternoon in the hot tub with lady friend. Then martinis with blue cheese olives. Next prime rib steaks with shrimp. Hope fully no fire works to scare the dog Swanky. See you on the flip side!

Merry Christmas to all the CC&C gang. Feel free to post new audio equipment that Santa brought or that special meal you enjoyed.

There is not much difference in the EVO series and the previous model. If budget is a concern look for a Dialogue HP Premium used. 8 power tubes up to the KT-150. I bought one used a couple of years ago with 8 EL-34 tubes and 8 KT-120 for $3000 shipped. The Quicksilver Horn Monos are a great match if you can find them. They are now discontinued. 25 wpc and self biasing. I have good luck on usaudiomart.com.

So cold here (35 degrees) the thermometer asked to come inside to warm up!

usaudiomart has a pair listed for $1500 in Kansas. Distressed Oak but with a few scratches. There is another pair on usaudiomart in Florida for $2000.

I was president of a softball league (the Bar League) in the 80's and our league was sponsored by a beer distributor. Since he gave us money I tried to drink his products at our games. The problem? He sold Old English 800, Weidemann, and Pabst.🤮

Thanks John! Guess I should have turned off the TV (room on the left). Merry Christmas to you.

This year.....

Glad that's done!

On the Carolina coast Hurricanes love overhead lines. Take em down as fast as possible. Ice storms though rare do the same. If I was to build another house it would have a whole house generator.

Nice John. Music room?

Congrats John! Enjoy.

Back to cables....does your blanket use a cable🙂 Just heard Jason Aldean released a new album today. Looked it up on Amazon Music and there it was.....in ultra HD at that. Quickly added it to my JA playlist. Very inexpensive.....just the monthly cost of Amazon Music.

Very tasty and will finish it for lunch today. A chuck roast may work well too but haven't tried that yet. The small store where we purchased the Osso Bucco also had Elk. May try that but not in chili.

At 9am seared some Osso Bucco steaks in a cast iron pan. Then on to the crock pot for 9 hours with chili fixins. Something new. Report tomorrow.

I've been doing low carb for 6 weeks and dropped from 197 to 183. I'm 6'2". Yesterday I had a cheat day as I have been craving a roast beef wedge with lettuce, tomato, and white cheese. $14 but enough for 2 meals. I expected to gain a pound or two but delighted to see I was at 182.8 this morning. Lady friend suggested that I have not been eating enough and that has slowed my weight loss. She may be right. I use to keep something from a magazine on the door of the fridge that states "nothing tastes as good as slim feels". That said I'm making Osso Bucco chili for tonight😊

Now let's hear the dog's side of it!

I'm a long time advocate of a low carb diet. I had scrambled eggs with cheese for breakfast and a Greek salad for lunch. Down 10 pounds in a month.

Thanks for asking and yes we made it through just fine. A few limbs and lots of pine cones so we really did dodge that bullet. Never lost power!

Okay then....we've covered cables and cocktails now.....just hope some of you gents will have coffee in the morning!

Never spent much on cables but it is part of our bylaws that we mention them every once in awhile!

I hear one of you gents is still using 16 ga zip cord for speaker cables. Come on and fess up.

You will be fine with the Rega. I have one and a Denon DP-1250. A couple of years back the Rega was voted the best $1000 TT. Get a good cartridge ( I use a Hana MC) and be done unless you want to spend a bunch of money for small returns. Google Rega P3 reviews.