A very good point, punkfolkrocker. My own situation involves a tribe of stomping kids above me, a family with a penchant for loud television below and the occasional boy racer with a souped-up exhaust pipe outside - maybe not as severe as yours, admittedly. I'm obviously imagining some ideal situation featuring a beautiful church with an amazing acoustic in some tranquil rural setting - which is maybe the kind of environment in which the Tim Eriksen album which the initiator of this thread mentions was recorded in...