Our eldest daughter, her husband and our two granddaughters (2y, 3m) arrive on the boat early afternoon.
I could leave the Hifi on until my son comes on Friday as he will be using that room but in my old middle age or young old age (I’m 60) I think I’m beginning to get my priorities right.
Have a wombling merry Christmas everyone.
.sjb
No Hifi for Xmas? Your son could sleep in the barn or a tent. Character building. Get your priorities right man.
Merry Xmas 
Interesting topic. I’m starting to break down and re-configure systems so the Christmas tree can be accommodated. Great reason to chop and change, knowing it’s not permanent.
I would see this as just another good reason not to have a Christmas tree.
Powering down later this evening before heading off to spend Christmas and New Tear with various family members. One house uses Roon and Jet Blades so will get to hear those. The other Spotify and whatever Bluetooth speaker is on hand.
One upside (other than spending time with the the grandchildren) is that I will be able to explore recordCD stores around San Francisco and pick up a number of CDs that I have had sent to sons in Scotland.
Looking forward to a lot of new music to listen to in early January.
For me, when home for Christmas I have Christmas trees including in the music room. Depending on the number and ages of any children that may come the music room may or may not be used for everything from wooden trainset to playing with Lego to play other games or just sitting and talking etc. Tree, seats etc inevitably will cause some degree of departure from normal acoustics, while the hi-fi departs from my normal good taste and will play Christmas music at various times, both relatively modern as in 60s onwards and traditional carols. At some point depending who’s there it may be used for sessions where people take turns to select a piece of music for YouTube or Spotify or whatever. And at various other times it is likely to be used for playing music that is likely to have wide appeal, playing at background levels. Almost certainly no personal dedicated listening sessions – but the hifi very much in use, and enjoyed by more people than normal!
Where are your priorities earthling? Hifi first; all else is secondary.
DA-2 Typhoon prototype. Just sayin’…
Ha ha. Bloom g predictive text. KEF Blades. 
Music first…..surely?
Good for warming up the system once the systemless festivities are over chez S_J_B.
In Asgaard it is true, we could get the LPO, BPO and LSO into the great halls, simultaneously, with room to spare, but in your meagre dwellings, you need the right equipment (Naim, obvs) first, to let the music out at scale.
This makes a lot of sense. It’s only for a few weeks. And the social element should outweigh the solo listening sessions.
Unless you really dislike gatherings that much.
Something similar is going to happen here this year. I have postponed moving my system to a different rack and will reassemble everything there once the tree is out on January 7. There is some maintenance needed for my turntable, which would have required its disassembly anyway.
Yeah the old Christmas dilemma. The room the system is in becomes the family room on Christmas day the ‘everyday room’ get a large kitchen table extension so there’s not room for sofas. Last year my youngest grandson(now 5) chucked something across the room, not in anger just to pass something to me, it hit one of my speaker cabinets(already covered in cloths) just missing one of the drivers. Ive just made some plywood boxes painted black to put over them , So they’ll be covered in cloth and then the drivers will have these boxes for extra protection. The system will be turned off when these go on late on Christmas Eve and it will be back on as soon as they’re removed when everyone has left late on Christmas day.
Pain in the A
Yes it is DA-2 but not sure I’d call it a prototype. DA is abbreviation for development aircraft (of which there were 7 in total) so it’s pretty much a production aircraft although it did have a few major refits during flight trials (including the EJ200 engine which was still in delelopment when the aircraft was first flown). We flew that out of Warton/Lancashire and at one point it had a spin gantry fitted for high incidence envelope expansion trials. You don’t intentionally spin an aircraft and it was just there in case the aircraft departed at high angle of attack.
Well i didn’t quite last until the new year setting up my KEF LSW as a stop gap once the room came free again that wouldn’t be as enticing to little hands as the lights on the full system.
Glad I did it, seems my eldest granddaughter is a budding audiophile having just discovered stereo!
.sjb
That is delightful
Cute
