Putting Curtains in the Man-Cave

Our top 5 ... what's yours? There are a ton of Christmas Albums out there - and nearly everyone has a collection, or a source of Christmas music that celebrates the Holiday.  These days it seems easier than ever. You find a station on Pandora (or equivalent), press "play" and your Holiday is sorted. Yeah, if you want to celebrate your music with predigested blandness ... So ... we'll list out 5 of our favorite Christmas Albums - and challenge you to go out yourself and find your own. So in no particular order ... 1.  Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas (Vinyl, SACD, CD, FLAC ... ) This is far an away our favorite Christmas album, when we play it, immediately the whole family knows that Christmas is around the corner.  Sure it goes with the TV special, but the Jazz is first rate, and is one of our favorite Jazz Albums of all time.  It is a shame it only fits best only one season out of the year! 2.  A Very Special Christmas (Vinyl, CD) ...

At the risk of having my audiophile card revoked, let me extol some virtues about a system that "gets it," for family audio - whole house audio - but even more importantly as a portal for music discovery. Can I tell you that the Sonos sounds great (we currently own a Play:5 , Sub , and 2 Connects ), and is simple enough that everyone in the family enjoys it?  Once you attach a few services to it (Spotify, MOG, Pandora) that people listen to and discover more music than you'd expect.  We have had so much fun over the last year that I believe our music-awareness kicked it up a notch. In fact we're splitting this into 2 parts - part 1 (this one) describing in big hand-waves, the system, and the next one (part 2) when you unleash a family with a history of practical jokes upon Sonos with every family member in the household having a remote control for it .... Has it replaced the main system? No. Could it?  No way. Does it sound great? Yes. What's my major b...