Pacific Audio Fest 2024: Part II. [About that MACHINA DYNAMICA, and mental health. 🫣]

PAF'24 - the balcony shot on a Sunday afternoon as things start to wrap up...

So let's continue with the September 6-8, 2024 Pacific Audio Fest show-and-tell (Part I last week) at Seattle. These are my visits to the rooms on Sunday September 8th. You've probably seen from my previous show reports that Sundays tend to be less busy than Fridays and Saturdays. Often this is not a bad day to visit because it means that the crowds are smaller, you'll be able to linger a bit longer to enjoy the music, are more likely to be able to request music, and the reps are easier to access if you have questions (or concerns). It's also a good day to make deals since many rooms would rather sell you the gear than pack stuff up and take home that evening. I know some folks scored some barely used room treatments.

Let's spend some time on Wing 2 of the main floor, and then the larger 2nd Floor "Cascades" rooms to finish off. As with last week, all prices are in US dollars unless specified otherwise.

First Floor - Wing 2

Linear Tube Audio (LTA) / Clayton Shaw Acoustic Lab / Innuos

We have the LTA Z40+ Integrated Amp ($7.65k, "up to 51Wpc"), Aero DAC ($4k, R2R ladder, NOS based on Analog Devices AD1865 chip) sitting on top of the Innuos ZEN Mk3 Network Streamer ($6.3k). Connected to the comparatively inexpensive Clayton Shaw CALADAN speakers ($3.5k/pair, $3.8k/pair with Isoacoustics GAIA III feet).

As you can see, the Caladans are an open-baffle 2-way design with a 1.5" kiln dried hardwood baffle (walnut, maple, or cherry available). Dual 12" mid/bass and single 1.125" silk tweeter. Sensitivity stated as 93dB/W/m, 4Ω impedance, 32Hz-20kHz +/- 2dB advertised. Their advertising material also claims that this is "The No. 1 selling Open Baffle speaker".

Music was mostly light jazz when I was in the room. We've got some Ray Brown Trio "Teach Me Tonight". Sounds very good, certainly adequate bass although the music doesn't push the lower end too much. Treble sounds sweet. Definitely worth a listen if you're interested in open baffle designs at a very reasonable price.

ABX Audiophiles Partners - La Dolce Audio

Next is an interesting room run by the ABX Audiophiles review folks who run a YouTube channel that puts donations and presumably other monetized income towards youth music programs. That's pretty cool.

Reasonably affordable audio gear here as well.

We've got the La Dolce Audio Allegro UA2.5 3W integrated tube amps ($1.8k) on top of the HPA2.3 "headphone adaptor" ($600) on the top shelf which takes the amplifier output and converts it to headphone out or as line-level out for preamp duties (which is what they were doing here).

We see 4 mono amplifiers; La Dolce UA2.5mS "Select" ($2.5k each) and UA2.5m ($2k each) for the 18" bass drivers. (Not able to find web page for all the products listed in the Press Sheet so not sure exactly how much power, looks like maybe 9W for the standard UA2.5m monoblocks.)

The speakers are a DIY design consisting of the the LDA1002 compression horn tweeter, LDA-HA15.1 15" mid/bass, and LDA18 18" bass woofer crossed at 130Hz:

Here's a peek behind. I was told that the approximate cost of the crossover and drivers is $1.7k but you'll have to make/obtain your own baffle which will likely add a bit of cost and time for the work.

The rest of the rack consists of the top-loading Jays Audio CDT2 Mk III ($2.5k) top-left and there's the comparatively large Denafrips Terminator Plus DAC ($6.5k) on the top-right:

Gotta say that this room sounded really good and easily the equal (if not better) than many of the higher priced stuff. The track "Viva Amor (ft. Eve de Voke)" by Kalya Scintilla sounded tight and very deep. Note that since we're looking at least at partial DIY speakers (I assume the company can give you standard plans to make the baffle and design variants), it's a good demonstration of what's possible with the components even though each build would sound a little different.

As a budget system with the DIY speakers and not-too-expensive La Dolce amps and such, it just seemed the cabling was a bit skewed pricewise. They're hooking all this stuff up with AF Audio's line of cables asking $500/m for the RCA interconnect, $600/m speaker cables. I think it would have been cool to pair up with the Blue Jeans guys downstairs in the Marketplace with their <$100 cables and I bet still made just as good an impression for visitors.

Vanatoo

Note subwoofer available to demo with speakers.

Continuing with the theme of affordable audio, the Vanatoo room was probably the lowest-cost system at the whole show. We have the smaller Vanatoo Transparent Zero+ ($450/pair - 4" aluminum woofer, 4" passive radiator, 1" soft dome tweeter, frequency response 52Hz-20kHz +/- 3dB advertised) as well as the larger Transparent One Encore+ ($650/pair - 5.25" aluminum woofer, 5.25" radiator, 1" aluminum dome, 48Hz-20kHz +/- 3dB) active wireless speakers. As you likely guessed, there are small Class D amps inside said to provide up to 100W bass, 20W tweeter for the One Encore+.

Note the low-passed sub output at 58kHz for the Zero+, and 48Hz for One Encore+. Crossovers all done by DSP.

They're both capable of Bluetooth AAC or aptX-HD wireless input. There's a 3.5mm analog in, and in the image above, we also see the ability to plug digital devices including S/PDIF coax, TosLink, and USB in. Although it accepts 96kHz, processing is done at 48kHz which is totally fine especially at this price point.

(From a perfectionist point of view, for multi-thousands-of-dollars stuff that handles hi-res, these days, I'd like to see internal DSP operating at 96kHz which should not be onerous for modern processors.)

Both speakers come with a remote control (left edge).

Clearly the smaller Zero+ was not able to dig as deep as the One Encore+ when playing music but the sound was certainly enjoyable and loud enough in the small space. I listened to this both with and without their subwoofer integrated which obviously added back the lowest octave (demo songs included Dave's True Story's "Misery", and Miles Davis' "So What").

These would make for a nice starter system for the younger folks and see if they get hooked into hi-fi!

Audio Note

Those are AN-J/LX Hemp speakers ($7.3k/pair, 1" tweeter, 8" mid/bass, said to be 93dB/W/m sensitivity, 25Hz-23kHz +/- 6dB advertised) placed against the corners for bass enhancement which is typical for the Audio Note designs to achieve their advertised, probably optimistic, bass response.

The silver box on the table is the Audio Note OTO Phono SE Signature Integrated Amp ($7.7k, Class A single-ended pentode, up to 10W into 8Ω). Turntable is the TT Three with PSU1 ($9.4k), don't forget the ARM Three/II tonearm ($2.5k), the AN-S2 step up transformer ($1.6k), IO1 MC cartridge ($5k).

For digital playback duties we have the CD2.1x/II ($5.7k, non-oversampling DAC based on very old-skool Philips TDA-1543 from the early 1990s). They're using the usual assortment of AN cables.

I heard Anita Baker's "You Belong To Me", and Jean-Jacques Perrey's "E.V.A." through the turntable. Sound was pretty good, maybe better than what I heard last year here, nice detail retrieval. The bass runs reasonably deep but obviously we're not going to get strong subterranean responses down in the 20-30Hz range. Nonetheless, the synthetic "E.V.A." got low enough and was exciting; definitely one of the better turntable setups I heard at the show.

They played some Peter Schmidl with Vienna Philharmonic & Leonard Bernstein of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A Maj, K.622: Adagio digital recording using the CD player. Sounded clean and smooth through the tube system. Nice clarinet tonality.

Overall, I thought there was still some "boom" in that small room and the soundstage was wide but a little diffuse such that Anita Baker's voice wasn't as focused on the song as it could have been (I had a listen tonight here at home to check). Utilizing the room boundaries for bass reinforcement adds extra dependence on having good room acoustics and I can appreciate the difficulty in small hotel rooms like this.

Cascades Rooms on the 2nd floor

These are larger than the smaller hotel rooms and we've got some higher priced systems down these halls.

Scott Walker Audio: Ideon Audio / JMF Audio / Estelon

Alas, I didn't see a Press Sheet so can't be sure of everything here. Visually some very nice looking matching-silver components with those modern, organic-shaped Estelon X Diamond SE speakers ($115k, 1" Accuton diamond tweeter, 7" ceramic mid/bass, 11" ceramic bass, 6Ω nominal with 3.8Ω minimum at 55Hz, 88dB/2.8V/m, 22Hz-45kHz claimed). 

BTW that ART thing on top is the "Audio Realignment Technologies" 5X mat - something about "passive electromagnetic treatment" with "magic" properties folks. 😕

The JMF HQS 7001 reference monoblock ($77k/pair) looks stunning. Spec'ed at 300W into 8Ω, 500W into 4Ω and 850W into 2Ω presumably 1% THD. They're 75lbs each. Preamp is the JMF PRS 1.5 ($36k).

I see the Ideon Absolute DAC ε (something like $47k?!, CNC milled chassis sitting on some aftermarket isolation footers) on the top rack. This DAC is based on the ESS ES9038PRO chip.

I would have loved to say that this system sounded great but I can't because I just found the room reverb too high and the bass was unfortunately quite boomy. A great example of what should be a very competent "megabuck" system let down by the "Room Domain".

Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain", Steve Strauss' "Youngstown", and Jamey Johnson's "High Cost of Living" (appropriate for these days!) were playing when I went in for the visit. Soundstage excellent, bass deep, but dang, a bit of strategic room treatments like some of those bass traps sitting around upstairs on the 14th Floor unused probably would have gone a long way to improve things!

Klaudio - Porzilli Audio

Some tall Porzilli Audio line arrays, apparently a prototype said to be full-range, omnidirectional, 296 drivers/pair (!?) on a handout. Paired with some M&K subs.

They were powered with two Benchmark AHB2 amplifiers. And there's a DEQX pre-8 preamp for active crossover duties:

A couple of Klaudio turntables in the room looked pretty nice.

Magnezar $60k? Magnetically levitated platter and
tangential tonearm.

I heard some of Tanita Tikaram's "Twist In My Sobriety", Lee Morgan's "Totem Pole" and Chet Baker's "Sad Walk" on LP. Hmmm... I think the LP playback sounded fine but these prototype speakers need some more fine-tuning. The EQ was clearly tipped too high, hence lacking adequate mid-bass. Also, I wondered about the upper treble, a bit "tinny". Otherwise quite precise, wide soundstage.

Zellaton / Burmester

A couple pairs of Zellaton speakers: the smaller white Emotion Evo ($47.75k/pair, 1.1" soft dome tweeter, 9" mid/bass, 91dB/W/m, 4Ω) and larger black Plural Evo ($79.75k/pair, 1" soft tweeter, 7" mid/bass, 11" bass, 92dB/W/m, 4Ω). They were playing the larger Plural Evo speakers when I was visiting.

We've got some matching Burmester electronics here. 175 turntable ($60k), 111 'Musiccenter' server/CD player/preamp ($55k), 077 Preamp ($65k). Nice looking matte silver and shiny chrome as you can see.

Big monoblock Burmester 159 amplifiers ($350k/pair). The specs sheet says "169kg"! Up to 1200W into 4Ω, with a claimed 0.0009%/-100.9dB THD+N (1kHz, 50W into 4Ω, 22kHz bandwidth). The representative informed me that this thing is Class A/B with 125W Class A - yup, this runs warm and you can easily experience the heat radiating from it as you approach.

So how does this sound? Yet again, I wish I could say it sounded fabulous but this time the LP playback was a massive disappointment. Initially they were playing Dave Brubeck's "Strange Meadow Lark" and I noticed quite severe distortion in the louder passages. They switched LPs to Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue and yet again distortion was there. I suspect there must be some dust or issue with the stylus.

I know the representative was aware of the sound problem and it looked like he was cleaning the stylus after the Miles Davis. I suggested switching to digital since the 111 Musiccenter was right there seemingly ready to go! I was told "we're demoing the turntable" and proceeded to keep working on the cartridge/tonearm. Ridiculous.

Oh well... I wish I had come back to this room later to get a better sense of what the Burmester/Zellaton sounded like with digital but alas had forgotten nearer the end of the day. As I'm sure commonly happens, one often doesn't get a second chance to make a good first impression.

Alas, I'm not having much luck finding great sound so far in the Cascades Rooms despite the larger room sizes and asking price of all this gear!

TriangleArt

The only larger horn speaker at the show this year. These are the TriangleArt Metis speakers ($25k/pair), 95dB/2.8V/m, 3-way with 15" dynamic woofer, 6.5" horn loaded midrange, RAAL ribbon tweeter, which I heard last year as well.

Obviously from the photo, an LP-centric setup. We've got 3 turntables here - the Master Reference ($39k) in the middle, Anubis ($18k) right, and Maestro ($9k) left. As you can see, they're very gold-colored, so make sure it matches your decor. 😉 They've got some silver variants as well.

Amplification by the TriangleArt I-20 integrated amp ($10k, 20W at 5% THD pure Class A, 0.58% THD+N at 1W, impedance/resistance not listed).

In my notes, I said "smooth, pleasant, good frequency response, modest deep bass" while listening to Larry Carlton & Lee Ritenour's "Crosstown Kids". Overall pretty good sounding room with high quality "audiophile" sound from the GRP music label through the Master Reference turntable with I think their Zeus MC cartridge ($4k).

ACA (Angel City Audio) / Zidoo / Eversolo

Next up we have the ACA Seraphim speakers ($11k/pair, 1" SEAS dome, 6.5" custom mid, 6.5" custom bass, 91dB/2.8V/m, claimed 28Hz-21kHz +/- 2dB). Based on the Press Sheet, I don't think these are the Seraphim Primes from last year (notice very similar picture). Like last year, they had the Melody AN211Mk2 integrated tube amplifier ($9k, 16Wpc unknown impedance, Class A) on the rack but this time it was not connected and instead they were using Eversolo monoblocks to power the speakers:

These are Eversolo AMP-F2 ($800 each I think), Class D, 145W into 8Ω, 250W 4Ω. It can be bridged which increases the power to 280W into 4Ω / 450W 2Ω based on the website. I didn't look behind to check and presume they ran these as bridged monoblocks.

The amplifiers are said to implement "Starke Sound NS600" amp modules which I believe are based on the popular TI TPA3255 chip that we've explored in many other products on this blog. There's a lot of box resemblance with something like the Starke Sound Fiera4 reviewed here.

There were sales on various products from Eversolo like the DMP-A6 Master Edition above at the show. Good markdowns on some of the Melody amplifiers on display also.

Playback in the demo system was with the Zidoo UHD8000 ($1500) connected to a MacMini. This looks like a good universal player for music and video streaming (has 2 drive bays for 3.5" SATA storage). There's an ESS ES9069Q DAC inside for 2-channel RCA/XLR audio outputs, HDMI for multichannel/Atmos, supports Tidal/Qobuz/Amazon and a number of others (didn't see Spotify or Apple Music) with iOS/Android smartphone control app.

They were playing Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" and Jennifer Warnes' "Way Down Deep" plus Bob Dylan's "Man In The Long Black Coat" as seen on the screen above. I thought it sounded really good with wide soundstage, excellent vocal clarity and center focus, nice retrieval of the low-level details; a clean "hi-fi" sound which is probably not a surprise.

Bella Sound

We saw a similar set-up last year. This company makes audio components, so the speakers - Analysis Audio dipole planar speakers with woofer/sub module behind - isn't what is being promoted.

What we have are the Hanalei monoblocks on each side ($40k/pair, 350W into 8Ω, 700W into 4Ω). They also have the Kahili stereo amp on display ($24k, 200W into 8Ω, 400W into 4Ω).

Serious looking Kaula 2 AC cable - $5.5k for the 2m cable! Kahili stereo amp.

Stylish luxury amplifiers with both RCA and balanced inputs. They played Mark Knopfler & James Taylor's "Sailing To Philadelphia" and the first Diana Krall I heard this show "When I Look In Your Eyes"! Oh yeah some "classic" audiophile demo music from the mid-2000's. 😁

I had no concern about the sound. Very clean, noise floor low enough that you can hear the inherent higher noise level on that Diana Krall track. Excellent center imaging of the vocals. A nice demo of powerful electronics with the ribbon planar speakers. Deep bass was not tested by these tracks during my visit.

Genesis Advanced Technologies

Unlike previous years where they showed the large Arnie Nudell-Infinity Reference Standard (IRS)-inspired line array speakers, this year the company went with some of their more traditional looking box speakers, the Genesis Series 7: the Minuet, Tango, and Foxtrot.

The main "System 1" here is the G7 Foxtrot ($13.8k/pr, 49Hz-40kHz +/- 3dB, 88dB/2.8V/m, 4Ω nominal, 2x1" ring radiator ribbon front and back, 2x5.5" mids, 2x8" woofers, 86lbs each, rear control for "Soft/Bright" +/- 4.5dB which I assume is the tweeter level). Amplifier here is the Heed Helikon preamp and monoblocks ($29.5k for the matched package, fully balanced, supposedly using new old stock discontinued Nichicon Gold coupling caps, Class A/B, 70W into 8Ω).

Genesis is into analogue playback as per previous shows. They have a nice looking Analog Audio Design TP-1000 tape machine here ($27k). And for vinyl we have the VPI Avenger Direct turntable ($35k, direct drive), Wand of Origin tonearm (guessing not cheap!), Hyper Sonic X4 cartridge ($18k), and Genesis Premium Gold phonostage ($15k). Amazing how much all those vinyl playback pieces would add up!

There's also their "System 2" with the G7 Tango speakers ($10k/pair, 2x1" ring ribbon, 2x5.5" woofer, 52Hz-40kHz +/- 3dB, 86dB/2.8V/m). Heed Lagrange integrated amp ($5.9k, 60W 8Ω, 100W 4Ω). Revox Yello B77 tape machine that's not for sale - I see the limited edition version goes for €13.5k.

And their smallest "System 3" here was the G7 Minuet speakers ($8k, 2x1" ring ribbon, 1x5.5" mid, 55Hz-40kHz +/- 3dB, 85dB/2.8V/m). Heed Elixir integrated amp ($1.75k, 50W 8Ω, 65W 4Ω).

Here's a better look at the main system's Analog Audio Design tape player and Heed monoblock amp:

The sound demo I heard was from their top model "System 1" playing Santana's Abraxas "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts". Well, for the price of the equipment this better sounded good 😉 and indeed very clean sounding LP with nice dynamics, minimal surface noise, "full bodied" instrumental timbre with a wide soundstage as I sat in the middle of the second row.

As I noted last year, Gary Koh puts on a great show with his goodies and this year was no exception with the reel-to-reel tape deck on Sunday afternoon.

So, what did the tape playback sound like? Here's a video of The Beach Boys' "I Get Around" from what's possibly a 3rd generation 1/4" 15ips tape through the Analog Audio Design TP-1000 player and Genesis G7 Foxtrot system:

Obviously, recording sound through a lossy portable device, and playing off YouTube lossy is NOT the same as the experience in the room (the timbre has been affected with loss of high-frequency detail also). In the room, I heard a beautiful mid-range warmth, the vocal overlays were detailed, with non-fatiguing roll-off of the upper treble, and sitting front-and-center when I took that video, the soundstage was wide and well balanced. Unlike vinyl, no clicks or pops audible in the quiet portions and the noise floor was very low. Certainly a unique experience and maybe even the best version of this (and others that afternoon) Beach Boys tracks I'll ever hear.

I know there are a bunch of accessory products I haven't bothered mentioning in these show reports like power conditioners and cables used in the room mainly because IMO these are not major or even necessarily significant components. Since I've seen it mentioned among audiophiles, here's the large banner advertisement for Puritan Audio Labs who claim they have the "World's Best Power Conditioner":

Puritan Audio PSM156, ~$2.5k.

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Whew! We're done with my PAF'24 show-and-tell with hardware pictures and music heard in the demos.

I think I visited all except a couple rooms. The Fourier Transform Speakers with their frightening-looking massive active DSP crossover+wires wasn't open on Sunday when I arrived and the Jim Suhre room let's just say wasn't my cup of tea (although PF liked the speaker last year).

Actually, almost done with PAF'24 reporting. Let's end off with a Part III maybe in a couple weeks and talk about general impressions, the educational experience, and maybe what would be nice to see/hear in future shows. Next week I'll probably aim for a more technical article to add a little variability.

Hope you're enjoying the music, audiophiles.

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As we end this post, I see OCD Mikey of 11 Stereo had Geoff Kait of MACHINA DYNAMICA for an interview this past week:

So, that Machina Dynamica website is indeed real! I always thought it was some kind of joke/spoof, and it seems that people actually send money to buy these things/services?! Wow, the interview is a fascinating peek into a certain kind of thought process where "anything is possible".

Well, we "learn" some interesting things in this video. For example, when coloring the edge of your CDs, use the green pen on the outside ring, but make sure you're aware that the inside ring should be black. Or just buy some NEW DARK MATTER from the company for $49. 🤔

Some of those magic marker pens sold back in the day had zip ties that apparently served a purpose:

For younger audiophiles who might not have lived through the times, a lot of this is related to the old Peter W. Belt claims from the UK which peaked maybe 25 years ago around Y2K with his "Holographic Foils", creams and pens for writing messages like "'x26'x" with effects that apparently transcend time and space (see the "X" Coordinate Pen review). Belt died in 2017; he called these "morphic messages". His wife May Belt continued selling these products and I've see her comments on the audio forums in the past but not recently (here's the PWB website).

Ideas like Rupert Sheldrake's "Morphic Resonances" and philosophical Extend Mind Thesis are used to rationalize these practices and beliefs.

Through the attempts at explanations, what is displayed in the Geoff Kait interview is an amazingly undisciplined mish-mash of ideas, hypotheses, and fantasies with little apparent attempt to do reality-testing which is what happens when discussing with snake oil salesmen, psychics, astrologists, homeopaths, and conspiracy theorists. Kait admits there has been no verification of his theories. I get the sense that Kait is a true believer in what he's selling rather than the slick arrogance of a sociopathic conman (cough... Synergistic ahem... Research). So this appears delusional. The thought process is disorganized and loose, flights of ideas pass without taking a break to consider the veracity of each, thus building a story based on layers and layers of questionable "truths" as if these constitute a meaningful foundation. There apparently are no boundaries here between science fiction and science.

[Warning! The "quantum" tweak in this next portion may be irreversible!!! 😱]

Check out the Teleportation Tweak tapping/thumping here at around 56:45. Hopefully the sound quality didn't get worse after you watched/played that if you're using your phone (I assume the trick works mainly on phones because he's using one on his end to do the "treatment"?). Kait claims that once your phone/system is treated, it cannot be untreated until you get a new phone or maybe SIM card! This is a $60 product?

Here's the Teleportation Tweak again at the end of the video if you missed it the first time. Once again, I hope it worked and didn't worsen the sound for you.* I don't know if this effect is additive, so if it worked, maybe play the tweak 26 times (morphic number as above) and your smart phone will eventually have the sound quality of the LG V60. 😉

[* Since there is no explanation for what this does, for all we know, suppose it did change the sound, the Teleportation Tweak could also have also sent an "accelerated aging" effect to your phone/system to result in premature failure by giving you "more" of the sound, right? Maybe that's why some claim the system now sound "louder"? Just one of countless ideas we could imagine for what it's doing - assuming one believes it's doing something other than just messing with our psychology! 😱 Are we gullible?]

Casio Thermometer clock with ceramic and magnet thing stuck on?
It's the Clever Little Clock - $299.

Obviously, this is plainly unwise, bizarre stuff, guys and gals. Be careful about the "tribe" if acceptance for these kinds of ideas is part of the gospel. I assume Mike Powell believes this ritualistic stuff in his video? If so, this is simply poor insight, and a ridiculous lack of judgment for one who portrays himself as a serious consultant who sells audio gear with "no snake oil" as he claims in some of his videos - that's what they all say!

(Powell makes relatively expensive Verastarr cables with interesting "properties" and "something", so maybe it's not surprising that this meaningless Machina Dynamica chatter might all be reasonable in his mind.)

Hmmm... No snake oil? U sure about that?

There's that little saying about keeping an open mind but not letting one's brain fall out...

But seriously friends, while I am writing this with some implied humor, it's actually quite sad watching that video of intelligent men with misdirected intellects and poor insights. It might be fun watching this and be entertained at some level, but I believe there are other compassionate emotions evoked when we see this kind of thing.

As individuals, I don't believe it's intellectually or emotionally healthy to be soaked in this kind of "information" or belief system online. Certainly I would not want friends or family be involved in this kind of pursuit even if there are worse things out there. It's a form of extreme, irrational, thinking that I believe we should all be mindful of these days when instead of a "web" of ideas, sometimes we can be sucked into "cocoons" of echo-chambers based on flawed foundations that simply waste time, energy and money; resources we can use to do and think about much more meaningful things.

Important to guard the heart and mind when traversing the marketplace of ideas whether it's in philosophies, faiths, politics, or even audiophilia - our tiny corner of the universe.

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Some new Canadian music from Calgary, Alberta - kind of a Clash/modern pop/punk fusion (from album Red Mile). Enjoy...