Putting Curtains in the Man-Cave

The Journey We both had things to do in the morning - so we met back at the house and left for Buffalo with our plan:  at most 1 hour at the Speaker demo, and then save 1-2 hours for the art museum and then back home.  It was a perfect plan that would have us back home in time for dinner. The Quad 2805 speakers at The Speaker Shop in Buffalo, NY Okay, that paragraph above there was far too much of a setup.  We ended up spending about 2 1/2 hours at the speaker demo, and took a rain check for the museum. We impose a limited curfew for any excursion away from home these days due to an elderly Poodle (see picture of him a few years ago).  The speakers were that surprisingly good. Our 4 hour leash This is our first review based upon "initial impressions" -- there is a reason that professional reviewers try to live with components for weeks and sometimes months - all we can give is initial impressions based upon 2 hours with them, and can't tell...

We were talking about what sort of post should be next in our blog, and hit a bit of a snag.  We were driving to a friend’s son’s graduation party and the discussion went like this: B: “I think we should review one of our favorite albums, like Ella and Louis” K: “That sounds hard … and I’m not sure a review would work on something we are so familiar with” B: “It doesn’t have to be very long … but I’d rather start with something like that, otherwise we’ll be reviewing equipment we have purchased - which is kind of … lame” K: “We do have that thing from the Kickstarter project coming up” B: “Yeah, we do, but who knows when that’s going to get here” K: “Well, we could talk about our reference music - explaining why each one is there. That was definitely new to me.” B: “Hey yeah, that sounds good” So here we are.  And anyone who already has a set of reference songs, you can skip right to the end where we talk about our reference music.  If you are scratching your head won...