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 »

I'm in the bedding-in stage for the Duelund-Corona 832A Project. I'm only about 15 hours in of the 100 hours or so needed for bedding-in of the breadboard phase of the crossovers, but the overall sound quality, tonality, and level of emotional engagement is already really shaping up impressively. There's a couple of things about... Read More »

As is my custom, I like to provide the readers of Jeff's Place a preview of upcoming feature articles for Positive Feedback, which in this case is the newly released Ortofon SPU GTX S moving-coil phonograph cartridge. The full feature review article has now been published at Positive Feedback, and you can read it HERE.... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well. 🙂 I have been so busy lately with audio projects and life events that I don't know which way is up, but it's all good!  The Audio Note (UK) M8 RIAA phono pre & AN-S8L SUT combination is bedding-in nicely. I've listened to 104 LPs now of... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 I'm in the "roll up your sleeves and get to work" phase for the Duelund-Corona 832A Project.  I'm also trying to be mindful of what I write as being a useful guide to the steps one goes through for building crossovers, so you can use what I... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 As a refresher, The Duelund-Corona 832A Project is about building new high-performance crossovers for my beloved vintage Altec 832A Corona loudspeakers (above) using the state-of-art Duelund CAST inductors and capacitors (below).  In particular, I'm building replacements for the stock Altec N800E crossover - or "dividing network" -... Read More »

It's exciting times here at my place with the arrival of the Duelund CAST pure copper capacitors and inductors for the Duelund-Corona 832A Project - woo hoo!  When the FedEx driver rang my doorbell yesterday, I knew I was in for a remarkable & exciting audio adventure when I saw the parcel from Frederik at... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well. 🙂 I've really been enjoying my music & audio adventures. There's always a bit of serendipity at play in music & audio, and that always makes things more exciting!  I've really been enjoying my vintage-inspired office system lately (above). I have to pinch myself on occasion to... Read More »

Rectifiers are the unheralded heroes of the vacuum tube world, and like Rodney Dangerfield, they get no respect - but they should. In a vacuum tube circuit, the power supply provides the necessary AC voltage from the mains. The rectifier then has the important role of converting that AC voltage into DC for the operation... Read More »

Today's Fresh Catch is the history book about Ortofon - Ortofon 100th Anniversary, A Century Of Accuracy In Sound. A big "Thank you!" to Louis Dorio of Ortofon for sending me a copy to read. 🙂 I am both a bibliophile (lover of books) and a history buff. I enjoy reading about history in general, exploring... Read More »