YK Thom

If I hadn't spent so much marital capital on those new speakers I would have bought this Dall Sheep mount on the spot. $3400 Canadian, which is pretty good. There are a number of hunting lodges around Norman Wells - moose and sheep are the big draws.

They have a small local museum with a great gift shop. A lot of nice mounts as well.

A picture of "downtown" Norman Wells from the hotel entrance deck.

Always great to back in Yellowknife.

And touchdown in Yellowknife. A bit snowy but quite mild for us this time of year.

Waiting for our plane to arrive in Norman Wells. Was looking forwad to getting back to YK before the weekend.

A shot checking out an old retired RCMP boat that one of my clients is considering purchasing to run freight from Norman Wells to Tulita in the summer.

Those of you have watched NWT Ice Pilots will be familiar with these guys...Buffalo Air loaded and getting ready to take off from the Norman Wells airport.

Spent a week up north attending a regional economic development meeting (Sahtu Region),in Norman Wells NWT. Great little town and one of my favourites. Very nice in the summer as it is right on the Mackenzie River. My GM came with me this trip as we had a few clients to visit at the same time. The local legion has a nice meeting room that is well booked for many local events. Nice and handy to the pub side once the days wrapped up.

I ran my RB61 IIs with treble at -1, bass at +1. Seemed to do the trick nicely. My Ohms are fine in this room running flat.

Steely Dan were studio wizards. I'm surprised I've never thought to use them. You now have me in the mood to play a few albums this afternoon.

Wow, I really like that. Going to order a copy. In a similar vein I have used The Goldberg Variations by Glen Gould over the years. My new Ohms passed with flying colours.

I hear you but... if we lived in a house with a basement recroom it wouldn't be an issue, but we are in an apartment style condo so there is only one main living room.

I think the pair of us came from the same school of marital survival.

Spectacular. Have always thought the LaScalas were amongst the most distinctive and beautiful speakers made by anyone. Sadly my wife thinks they are too "fat" (wide). These are the nicest of the lot.

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He must want some crazy volume levels to keep blowing these things up. The B&Ws are obviously the wrong speaker for his listening habits and preferences.

Nice speakers, you are fortunate.

You have some wise people. Not sure what happened to us.

The Alberta guy's get a real kick out of it. My wife's family has kennels, race and do tourist rides. The little buggers can really go and get very excited.

Thanks and have fingers crossed for you. I seem to get a monstrous one every year. Have enjoyed the "me time" listening. In fact because of most people being at work I kicked the volume up higher than I normally do. Thankfully I didn't end up with plugged ears.

Had a fantastic weekend. Our annual Masonic Installation, which as in years past featured a very large contingent from Grand Lodge in Alberta. We had 18 brethren and wives come up this year. Had them out dogsledding Friday afternoon, a late luncheon and a fairly scotch infused meet and greet that evening. The women were taken around town shopping and such by the local wives whilst we were doing the actual Installation. The whole thing comes to a head with a large banquet complete with dancing band Saturday night. A lot of hand shaking and such and my Sunday morning hangover morphed into a full on cold/flu. Have been down for the count since. Upside...the wife is at work and I've had time to recoup listening to albums the wife is not keen on as well as some of my favourite classical CDs uninterrupted. Should be back up and about tomorrow.

I have always thought this was just in my head. I've noticed the Jeep does better in winter up here. Most definitely goes through more fuel, although some of that is warm up idling and being thrown into 4high more often.

Apples and oranges really. I suppose the Bose is adequate for small rooms at moderate volumes for those who just want to watch a movie. Sort of like comparing a Cruze with a Jeep for off-roading.

If you can get ahold of a Marantz Sr5008 you will be in good shape. I have one and it sounds really good with Klipsch. Solid build and has more than enough juice.