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| Ottawa, Ontario 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 act... | |
| A "Unique" Voice... Leonard Cohen | |
| Stephane Grappelli fans I just bought the CD "Hot Dawg" with Dave Grisman. Grappelli played a number of cuts on it, which I didn't know at the time. I put it on, and on cut 3 I suddenly thought, "Boy, whoever that is sure sounds like Stephane Grappelli!" And sure enough,... | |
| Coincident Technology Speakers A correction and a couple of further comments related to what I said above:The correction is that the PX25 amp I'm using at the moment is of course an Audion, not an Audio Note.The sense of warmth that Harry Pearson found in the midbass of the TVs... | |
| Coincident Technology Speakers I'm part of an aoudiophile gang in Ottawa that are all Coincident fanatatics. The sperakers we run include a pair of Total Eclipses, two pairs of Super Eclipse III, a bastardized pair of Milleniums (an older two-box design with the Total Eclipse m... | |
| Speakers for low power amps? I've heard the FAB Model 1 at my hi-fi pusher's store, driven by my Wavelengths. They sounded fantastic - open, clean and very dynamic with great bass slam and faster than Anna Nicole Smith. The amps matched those speakers much better than my big ... | |
| Speakers for low power amps? I don't know if they're available south of the border, but FAB speakers, especially the 97db efficient Model 1, are a lead-pipe cinch for low-power tubes. I'm toying with the idea of getting a pair to replace my Coincident Total Victories - lookin... | |
| Ottawa, Ontario Matthew and JeffI'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 | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... For listening to Tom Waits, a nice 8 year old Sheep Dip (a real whisky!)... | |
| TG Audio cables - Opinions? I use Bob's speaker cables and I love them. In my system they have a marvellously full, rich tonality, tons of detail, the most natural presentation I've heard, and extremely solid and dense imaging. I use his interconnects as well, which have the... | |
| TG audio Speaker cables and IC's TG HSR is totally atypical silver wire, in that it's not intrinsically bright or tipped-up at all. I use it with tube amps, a tube pre and Total Victory speakers, but it sounds exactly like the manufacturer, Bob Crump, described it to me. He uses ... | |
| which 300b tube sounds the best? They are a drop-in replacement for standard 300Bs. I've used them to good effect in two amps designed for regular 300Bs, as well as in an amp specifically designed for them. I don't know if they will give you more body and warmth, though. The diff... | |
| Art Audio Carissa vs deHavilland 845 tube amps I've never heard an Art Audio amp, but the deHavilland 845s I had were lovely, especially with the new Shuguang 845B tubes. I'm not one of those who is thrilled with the 845 sound however, but my local dealer is. When I asked him to sell the deHav... | |
| which 300b tube sounds the best? Ever since I put KR 300BXLS in my CA-339s I stopped chasing power tubes. Yeah, they're pricey, but I even preferred them to WE in my Wavelength Tritons. | |
| Best single-malt Scotch... Yesterday I hosted a group of audiophiles for a whisky tasting. We tried a number of special cask strength bottlings that have recently been released in Canada. These included:Convalmore 24Blair Athol 27Brora 20Brora 30Port Ellen 24Talisker 20We s... |