Hello everyone,
This is my first post. I live in Japan, and teach English at university here. I'm originally from Montreal, tho. 
Here are a few photos of some of my nice things. (BTW, James, thanks so much for your help with the amp situation. Will be mailing you directly beginning of next week.)
FYI, the TV is a Sharp Aquos Quattron 46 inch. I also have an airport express feeding the BDA-1 with the tons of lossless music files that are on my Mac Pro (located under my desk in the adjoining room). It's very convenient, but not surprisingly, CD's played on the universal player which is connected to the BDA-1 with a Black Cat Veloce BNC cable, sound significantly better.
Thanks,
Peter H. Budden
P.S. All photos taken with Nikon D300 and Tokina 11-16mm F2.8.
Heard from Peter in Japan - he is OK but thought his experience gives us all thoughts to ponder.
I emailed Peter and asked if he was OK
His response:
"Hi James,
I'm OK, thanks. Bryston amps and BDA-1 are OK too!
CD's and books are all over the floor. Tsunami did not come this far inland, thankfully.
Hell, this was the real deal. Been through a lot of them here but this one just kept going and getting bigger and bigger and BIGGER.. I ran outside to the parking lot across the street. Thought the world was going to end! Telephone poles and lines swaying back and forth. Ground was like liquid.
Oh! Another aftershock right now as I type. Been a lot since the big one this afternoon.
I'm kind of lucky that I was home today. Tokyo's a city of 30 million. All the trains are stopped. People are walking home, like a lot of them will be walking five or six hours.
Telephone lines cell and land lines are down but internet, Facebook and Twitter keep on ticking!
Hope things are calmer where you are."
Peter
