Greetings music lovers!

About Jeff's Place

I've been writing about hi-fi for about 20 years now. Many of you know me from my hi-fi writing at 6Moons (way back when) and Positive Feedback (currently). 

Jeff's Place is my personal blog where I've been writing about hi-fi & music (mostly), and random other stuff that strikes my fancy, for about 14 years now. 

My goal for Jeff's Place is to provide readers with simpatico interests additional information, thoughts, reflections, and other behind the scenes information that don't fit into conventional reviews of hi-fi gear.

I write about a variety of hi-fi topics that includes contemporary audio equipment, vintage audio equipment, and modifications to audio equipment.

While I enjoy and do my best to cover the broader spectrum of enthusiast hi-fi, I have a particular fondness for high-sensitivity loudspeakers, musical modern & vintage electronics, and analog front ends.

More recently, I've started exploring contemporary digital sources with an exceptionally musical disposition, like those from Audio Note (UK), which have proved a revelation for expanding my listening choices from Planet Earth's vast recorded music canon. 

Turn on the music, grab a cup of your favorite beverage, then sit back and relax while you catch up on some music & hi-fi adventures with yours truly.

About Jeff

I love music. I listen to a little bit of everything, but my first love is jazz, which comprises the majority of my listening. I was introduced to jazz by my mother, no doubt in utero, but certainly later via an old console stereo, over 65 years ago now. 

I heard my first live jazz concert August 15, 1965, when my Mom took me to see Louis Armstrong in a parking lot concert at the Lloyd Center Mall in Portland, Oregon. It made a huge impression on me, and I’ve loved jazz ever since.

My first hi-fi rig was an integrated ‘fold-out’ stereo record player with detachable speakers, circa 1960. It was great to be able to detach the speakers, so I could put them in my bedroom window, and introduce the neighbors to my favorite new music. I would find out later that they didn’t appreciate that kind gesture nearly as much as I thought they would.

A middle & high-school friend of mine, Mark Newcomb, also a jazz enthusiast during the period that rock & roll was king among most of our friends, introduced me to good hi-fi gear via the Dynaco kits he built – they were fantastic!

Coming from humble origins, as a youngster I couldn't really afford a nice stereo for a very long time, as I was focused on surviving while working and going to school, but I loved playing jazz and rock & roll over any hi-fi gear I had, so that was ok by me.

Later on, as I was exposed to more enthusiast hi-fi equipment, I became more interested in having a nice stereo system. Slowly, over the years, I was able to build up a nice set of hi-fi gear, and I’ve been a hi-fi nut ever since.

In 2003 I started writing about hi-fi for a new audio web-zine that was starting up, Srajan Ebaen's Six Moons.

Writing about hi-fi turned out to be a lot of fun, and I was hooked. I really enjoyed writing for Six Moons, and now for Positive Feedback.

In 2009 I started up my own hi-fi blog, Jeff’s Place, so I could do a little hi-fi writing on the side that didn’t fit into the context of the normal audio review format.

I’ve really enjoyed listening to music & playing with hi-fi gear over the years, it’s such a great hobby. 

I retired from my day job of 'overseeing', 'administration', and 'managing' science research programs & projects at a national laboratory at the end of 2017, so now I'm able to immerse myself in my hobbies. 

When I'm not amusing myself with my hi-fi and audio-visual systems, I enjoy riding bicycles and motorcycles whenever I can, writing about hi-fi, listening to music, reading a good book, spending time with friends, and traveling. 

Ok, now it’s time to turn up the music!

Thanks for stopping by, and may the tone be with you!