Happy Holidays! – With 2025 coming to a close, my sincere thanks go out to all the manufacturers who furnished us with review loaners this year to keep you entertained, us in this writing gig and me and Chai Baba my Bengal cat under a roof with food in the fridge and propane in the tank. More thanks go out to all our readers without whom we'd have no audience so no purpose for doing this thing. Collectively we must give thanks that all of us involved in music playback in the home actually have the time and means to do so. It takes just one glance at the daily news to appreciate just what a privilege and blessing this is. By extension, more gratitude has to go to all the musicians without whose work and dedication none of us would have anything to listen to. Thank you to all the musical content creators at the heart of our hobby. Without you we'd be nowhere. I certainly would. And I much prefer my elsewhere to nowhere. Hence this artwork from Pixabay contributor Stefan Keller of Kellepics.
