Each year around this time, we use a Roundtable to drop some last-minute hints about the gifts we’d like to see under our trees come Christmas morning. What would you like Santa to bring you?
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Unless someone wants to talk Jennifer Lawrence into making a Christmas morning appearance at my apartment, my biggest want lately has been an upgrade from my 5.1 home theater to a 7.1 system. Yes, I realize that Dolby Atmos is the new shiny thing on the block, but renting a place instead of owning kind of limits my options when it comes to audio. I just can’t go around drilling holes in the walls (or, in the case of Atmos, the ceiling). However, a reasonably priced 7.1 set up (hopefully with rear wireless speakers \u2013 again, so I don’t have wires running across the floor) is one of my goals in 2015. Sadly, this is one of those desires that I’m probably going to have to purchase myself, but hopefully I’ll get enough Amazon gift cards this Christmas to make the buy less of a hit on my wallet. By the way, if any of our readers would like to recommend a system, feel free to comment below!<\/p>\n
For Christmas I’d like to upgrade my HDTV. I’ve been looking around, and a Samsung 50-inch 4K Ultra HD television fits in almost exactly the same space as my old 40″ 1080p set. Because of the lower profile edges, I could get ten more inches of screen in just about the same amount of wall space and have a spare TV to put in another room. That’s a win-win if ever there was one. Now I’m just hoping Santa brings me one. That, or I’ll have to dress up in the red costume and buy it myself in January.<\/p>\n
I’m in kind of a pickle. On one hand, I really, really want that deliriously over-the-top boxed set of the ’60s ‘Batman’ series<\/a> that came out a month or two back. On the other, well, I also really, really don’t want it. I tend to be the marathon viewing type, and as much as I dig the Adam West-era ‘Batman’ show, I don’t think I can mainline 120 episodes of that without losing my already tenuous grip on my sanity. Also, that collection is so expensive that I can get a massive stack of other TV-on-BD boxed sets for the same price. It’s the sort of situation where if I don’t get it, I’ll be disappointed. If I do get it, I’ll bemoan all the other stuff I could’ve gotten instead. Where’s Santa when I need him?<\/p>\n I’m betting I’ll have the fourth season of ‘The Walking Dead<\/a>‘ waiting for me under one of the many Christmas trees I’ll see over the holidays. It sure would be nice to see the latest season of ‘Doctor Who<\/a>‘ as well as the first seasons of ‘Penny Dreadful<\/a>‘, ‘Fargo<\/a>‘ and ‘Sleepy Hollow<\/a>‘. Heck, I’ll take ‘Supernatural<\/a>‘, ‘Arrow<\/a>‘, ‘Continuum<\/a>‘, ‘Orphan Black<\/a>‘ and, thanks to my masochistic collectors’ mentality, maybe even ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.<\/a>‘ and ‘Justified<\/a>‘ while I’m at it. I meant to ask for a couple of ‘Adventure Time<\/a>‘ season sets, the complete ‘Cowboy Bebop<\/a>‘ set, and the third ‘Looney Tunes Platinum Collection<\/a>‘, but I never quite got around to it. I’m typing all that out and wondering when I’d ever have time to watch all this anyway.<\/p>\n As far as videogames go, all I’ve asked for that I haven’t scored already are the remastered ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ and ‘Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’. I know, I know. The NES Remix Pack, ‘Little Big Planet 3’ and ‘Hyrule Warriors’ are on the top of my didn’t-tell-anyone-I-wanted-’em list.<\/p>\n Geez, this many paragraphs in, and I’m starting to feel like I might be a greedy little cuss. I’ll round this out with two things related to one of my other passions: offbeat musical instruments. I have a pretty sprawling collection of Moog gear already, and I’m chomping at the bit to add a Moog Sub 37 to the mix. It’s paraphonic! That could change everything! One of my favorite guitar pedals I own is a Rainbow Machine<\/a>, and I’d love to pair it with another Earthquaker Devices stompbox, the mighty Bit Commander<\/a>‘.<\/p>\n I’ve already gotten the greatest gift I could ask for: an editor willing to put up with that many hyperlinks in one Roundtable without banishing me forever.<\/p>\n I love tech of all sorts, especially in the office and home theater. That said, over the last year I’ve added or restored to use so much tech (from displays to speakers, to you name it), what I’d really like is some solid time to sink into it all. Catching up on some recent Blu-ray additions would be a great start. Of course, should an 8K display appear close to the Christmas tree, I certainly wouldn’t notify the authorities. <\/p>\n I love my audio, so that particular area of my system is in constant upgrade mode. Currently, especially with the recent addition of Dolby Atmos, I’ve been wanting a little more oomph in the bass department. I’m currently running three subwoofers through my Denon AVR-X5200W and a miniDSP but have been hankering for a fourth. What I’ve been eyeing is the PSA XS30se. Maybe Santa is listening or reading the blog this year.<\/p>\n I’ll echo what Brian said above. Time is at a real premium for me these days. I don’t need any more stuff<\/em> at the moment. I just need time to catch up on my movie watching, my Blu-ray reviewing or \u2013 dare to dream \u2013 my sleep. All I want for Christmas is a Time-Out.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Have you been naughty or nice this year? Tell Santa what you’d like for Christmas in the Comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Each year around this time, we use a Roundtable to drop some last-minute hints about the gifts we’d like to see under our trees come Christmas morning. 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