Happy holidays all! My computer access has been a bit spotty over the past few days with travel and festivities and such, but I hope everyone - locals, out-of-town well-wishers, and the entire AC family - enjoys the season and new year in health and happiness!
Captain, no worries about the delayed jam at your place. It sounds like you have been covering a lot of audio ground lately, so I'll be curious to see your new "holy grail" configuration! Sounds like Art is going to be able to show off some significant changes as well next year...
Personally, I'm at my brother's place at the moment where we have spent some time swapping different ICs and speaker cables (including Gregg Straley's) in and out of his system. I'm becoming completely dismayed at just how much effect good cables can have on a resolving system... I think that my own "holy grail" system is going to cost me more than I anticipated (again!)!

Best wishes to everyone in 2006!
Edit: By the way, I've really come to enjoy the "American Beauty" score that was recommended in the "BASSBASSBASS" thread. I've been using it for testing, and it is very enjoyable in its own right, and a great demo disk for bass and imaging.