We wish everybody a healthy and prosperous and musically fulfilling new year. May you all find great new music and some great equipment to play it on.

This is our Happy Little Fake Fiber Optic with LED holiday tree this year. With so many live trees outside, and having to dump it so soon after Christmas to go to CES, it didn’t seem right to cut down one this year.

It was fun hunting for things to put under the tree. For the record:

Audio Note SOOTTO interconnects
Nordost ODIN interconnects
A top to the EDGE NL Reference ‘pyramid’ amps we had laying around from when ours were made
Mel Torme ‘Swinging on the Moon’
A Ginger Bread house ornament
A Chocolate Santa Claus
Audio Aero Prestige remote control
A quad of EL84 tubes
Phonic PAA3 frequency analyzer
Radiohead 2plus2isfive
TiVo wireless ethernet device
HRS Nimbus Couplers

OK, I am not in the mood to be packing and this is the way I waste my time 🙂

Runner ups are below… 🙂

This post was supposed to show how the grooves techno LPs look different than, say, jazz or classical LPs.

Not sure how well the photos illustrate this – but let’s just continue on as if they do a remarkable job, shall we? Please? Perhaps I’ll find and post a better example later.

While we were shopping a few weeks ago in the dollar record bin -there was a certain angle where the LPs looked ‘broken’, and Neli said as much – but my impression is that the drum machines create these rhythmical pasterns on the LPs that makes them look very … different.

Capturing that angle in photos is a little difficult – and again, I am not sure these two albums are extreme enough to point out the unique signature of this genre.

Do other genres have signatures? Most people know that the grooves are shallower, reflecting less light, during quiet parts – female vocals for instance.

Can people tell which genre an LP is just by looking at it?

Can people tell what song it is? Can they, like some can just by looking at sheet music, start humming the music by just ‘Lookin at da Grooves?’