Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! It's a nice evening on the HiFi front, and I'm being amazed by the music I'm listening to, so I thought I'd check-in and tell you about the latest goings on.   Check out my latest Today's Fresh Catch post about the Acoustic Revive "Active" Analog Stabilizer PS-DBLP... Read More »

It's always exciting to get a new component from Ken-san at Acoustic Revive and Elia-san at the MuSon Project (exporter).  Today's Fresh Catch is the Acoustic Revive Analog Stabilizer PS-DBLP (¥88,000 / $567.83 USD, excluding tax). Like all of Ken-san's creations, the fit and finish is extraordinary, and the analog stabilizer PS-DBLP comes safely packed... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. 🙂 Our friend Yazaki-san is back, this time with his friend, Alan-san, to share with us about their "Adventures in Real Sound," along with some very personal and heartfelt autobiographical life experiences.  Welcome back, Yazaki-san! Thank you for another wonderful article! “Adventures in Real Sound” with Yazaki-san: Alan-san’s... Read More »

As is my custom, I like to give you a "sneak peek" into my upcoming Positive Feedback feature articles, which in this case is about the Gold Note DS-10 EVO DAC and PSU-10 EVO power supply. The Gold Note DS-10 EVO DAC and PSU-10 EVO power supply is a digital technology marvel in that the... Read More »

Greeting friends, I hope you are well. I had a nice discussion with Gary Koh (Genesis Advanced Technologies) about how The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest album came about. The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest It's a great story. Did you know they used the same equipment - Nagra... Read More »

During a very enjoyable conversation, yesterday I was telling Peter and Daniel Qvortrup, and Adrian Ford-Crush, of Audio Note (UK) fame, how much I adored playing acoustic and electric era recordings back through the Audio Note (UK) CD 5.1x Red Book CD player. The combination of the CD 5.1x CD player and the Audio Note... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! I spent a couple of hours this morning replacing a Lorlin-UK selector switch in my Triode Lab 45 EVO SET integrated amp that had failed. It happens. Upside: It gave me a chance to work on my soldering skills, which haven't been getting much of a workout lately.... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! Also, let me wish you all a "Happy Holidays!" as we rush through the last few weeks of 2025.  While this is a time of good cheer and many fond memories, it is also a SAD Season for many people as well. A sort of yin-yang, sweet... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well. My digital "there and back again" journey started with some ye olde digital sources - the PlayStation PS-1 and the Mhdt Paradisea+ DAC - compared to newer ones - Yazaki-san's Improved Douk Audio U4 streaming DAC and the formidable Audio Note (UK) CD 5.1x CD player, which... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. If you haven't read Part 1 of my digital time travel article, you can read it HERE. Sony PlayStation SCPH-1001 (PS-1). In summary, in Part 1 I had a fun tour back through the digital dark ages with the once popular Sony PlayStation SCPH-1001 (PS-1), which back in... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well. It's that time of year again, time for the Positive Feedback Writers' Choice Awards for 2025, which you can read HERE. There's lots of cool things to check out, so be sure to go and give them a read and do a little dreaming about what your next... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! In my music and audio life, I find myself in a charmed place at the moment. Each of my four audio/audio-visual systems is really enchanting me with their lofty levels of musical and audio performance, and importantly, their intense levels of emotional engagement.  It's a good place to... Read More »

If you've been following along with this story - Yazaki-san's "iPhone Adventure" - you know that it all started with Yazaki-san exploring streaming music from an iPhone to a minimalist vacuum tube Douk Audio U4 Bluetooth DAC that he had modified for higher performance.  Yazaki-san's hot-rodded Douk Audio U4. It turned out that the performance... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well.  The weather here is getting down towards freezing in the evenings and mornings now, and as fall slides into winter, it has me reflecting on 2025. I must say it has been a truly remarkable year for me on the music and HiFi front, so I've put together... Read More »

Frank's son, Andrew, contacted me about his Dad's Tannoy Westminster Royal SEs with Duelund crossovers. Frank has passed away, and Andrew doesn't have room for the big West's, so he wants to sell them and have them go to a good home.  My condolences to Andrew and the Rodgers family, I'm sorry to hear of... Read More »

As is my custom, I like to give you a "sneak peek" into my upcoming Positive Feedback feature articles, which in this case is "The Duelund-Corona 832A Project - Serendipity to Ecstasy!" article describing the Duelund CAST crossover build that Frederik Carøe and I collaborated on for the vintage Altec Corona 832A loudspeakers from the... Read More »

As is my custom, I like to give you a "sneak peek" into my upcoming Positive Feedback feature reviews, which in this case is the exotic and ultra-performing "Level Five" Audio Note (UK) pairing of the M8 RIAA phono preamplifier with the AN-S8/L step-up transformer. Sometime in the next few weeks, the full review will... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. 🙂 Most of you know I'm a huge fan of Ward Marston's record label, and the important transfers to digital he does of historic operatic, vocal, and piano performances.  Above: "Early Hi-Fi" from Bell Labs. In my Positive Feedback feature review, The New Ortofon SPU GTX S Moving-Coil... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. 🙂  I hope you were one of the fortunate ones to attend the Pacific Audio Fests, you know what great fun the Fests were. Here's a couple of photos to remind you of all the fun to be had at the Pacific Audio Fests.  PAF show Director and... Read More »

"Today's Fresh Catch" is a bit of a misnomer when it comes to the Luxman AS-10 transformer-based constant impedance attenuators, as these are vintage audio products from the 1970s that were available primarily in the Japanese audio marketplace, and are not in production any more.   Above: Luxman AS-10 transformer-based constant impedance attenuators. You might... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂  I’m progressing in learning about the performance capabilities of the Gold Note DS-10 EVO streaming DAC and PSU-10 EVO power supply in my vintage inspired office audio system.  Above: Gold Note DS-10 EVO power supply (left) and DS-10 EVO DAC (right).  As I continue to write about... Read More »

Greeting friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 It's been an astonishingly busy time of late, but all is well, and I'm thoroughly enjoying my music & audio life, and life in general. One thing I've found out about life, is to learn to cherish those times when things are going well, as inevitably there... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. 🙂 DHL just dropped off an exciting parcel from Gold Note, containing the Gold Note DS-10 EVO streaming DAC, along with the optional Gold Note PSU-10 EVO dedicated external power supply.  Photos (above & below): Gold Note PSU-10 EVO external power supply (left), Gold Note DS-10 EVO streaming... Read More »