Ottawa, Ontario

Matthew and Jeff

I'd be interested too. I'm a west ender like Matthew, and I'm always looking for new listening experiences. My system is posted here, and my listening room is always open.

Paul Chefurka

Well we appear to be off and running. With a listening session already scheduled.

If anyone else is interested please let us know.

all the best

matthew

Well the first night went well. Great music and good conversation. We listened to: Calamus, The Creaking Tree String Quartet, Bill Frisell and Bob Brozman. We listened with and without the tube buffer. Opting to go without the buffer, mostly because the buffer isn't burned in yet. Plans are in the works for a second night.

matthew

Well we have now enjoyed our second evening. I had a chance to revel in the glory of the Total Coincident Victory and it was incredible. We listened to an Audio Silver Night SET integrated and to Canary push pull mono blocks. I preferred the Canary but they were both outstanding.

The music included: Patricia Barber, David Grisman, Jill Saint John, Lutoslawski and a bunch of men singing pig latin versions of "Old MacDonald".

We reconvene in April to put my Totem Model One's through the paces.

Yes indeed, the Coincidents were in fine form. They will be replaced for the next session chez GliderGuider by the FAB Audio Model 1, which are even more Fab than a Total Victory!

For anyone wondering what instrument Jill St. John plays, it was actually Lara St. John playing Gypsy music on a Strad. The pig latin thing is an odd recording. It was written and produced by Sandra Boynton, and is described on the net thusly:

"Perhaps the single most ambitious, inexplicable project in a career fraught with ambitious inexplicability: a book/CD documenting a simple day in the simple lives of the simple pigs of Snouto Domoinko de Silo. Intoned in the original Pig Latin, with antiphonal responsaria and commentaria by the lesser barnyard animals. (Maybe you had to be there.) Truly sooee generis."

It's basically "Old Macdonald Had a Farm" sung in Gregorian chant by the animals on the farm, all of whom for some reason speak Latin, except for the pigs who of course speak Pig Latin. The acoustics and recording quality of this CD have to be heard to be believed. And even once you've heard it you can't believe anyone bothered...