Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 In case you are new to the ongoing review series I have been writing about Audio Note (UK) audio components here at Jeff's Place and Positive Feedback, let me catch you up.  Audio Note (UK) is located in Sussex, England, and has been manufacturing high-performance vacuum tube... Read More »

During the High Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath who was a talented architect, draughtsman, engineer, painter, scientist, sculptor, and theorist. da Vinci's imagination, skills, intelligence, and insights still make him household name today, over 500 years after his death. Every once in a while I run across someone who has done something... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. It's always a pleasure to meet up with my talented jazz guitarist friend, David Gitlen. This morning we went out for a nice breakfast (Thanks, David!), and afterwards came by my place for some jazz listening adventures. Joe Pass: Virtuoso and For Django I wish you could all... Read More »

I get all giddy thinking about DIY audio projects, and particularly when they involve Frederik Carøe (Duelund Coherent Audio).  If you read my recent State Of The Systems Report: Audio Nirvana! Part 1, and State Of The Systems Report: Office Nirvana! Part 2, you noticed that both those loudspeaker systems - Tannoy Westminster Royal SEs... Read More »

Greeting friends, I hope you are doing well. 🙂 This is Part 3 of my "State Of The Systems Report", where I thought I'd update you about how each of the three audio systems that I have up and running are doing, as they have been in a relatively stable configuration for a while now. ... Read More »

Greeting friends, I hope you are doing well. 🙂 This is Part 2 of my "State Of The Systems Report", where I thought I'd update you about how each of the three audio systems that I have up and running are doing, as they have been in a relatively stable configuration for a while now. ... Read More »

Greeting friends, I hope you are doing well. 🙂 It's been a rough go for me to start the year. I managed to catch some illnesses in series that have laid me flat for almost 9 weeks now. Ugh. The silver lining during all that time has been how grateful I have felt for the... Read More »

As I mentioned in my last post (HERE), I've been into spinning a lot of vinyl the last few weeks. There's so much good new & used vinyl to be had these days, it's been a real treat to add records to my vinyl library.  I've been exploring the vinyl via a signal path of... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 I've really been into spinning vinyl the last few weeks. There's so much good new & used vinyl to be had these days, it's been a real treat to add records to my vinyl library.  The fidelity of feelings. While spinning said vinyl I've been pondering what... Read More »

Greetings from the cold Pacific Northwest. Snow today! I hope you are well. 🙂 Tone Poets The vacuum tubes are full of fire on a cold winter day, and I've been spending the afternoon listening mostly to vinyl with the Tone Poets. I really have to hand it to Blue Note President Don Was, and... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. 🙂  I am celebrating getting through the holidays intact, and I’m looking forward to what unfolds in 2025!  I’ll start with my thoughts for the New Year: Be civil and kind to each other. Maximize virtues. Minimize vices. Grow as a person. Do something to make your part... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. 🙂  First allow me to wish you a Happy Winter Solstice, a Merry Christmas, a Happy Kwanzaa, a Happy Hanukkah, a Grumbly Bah Humbug, a Happy New Years, or a Happy Whatever Floats Your Boat, this Holiday Season. It's all good!  We've survived another tumultuous year here on... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well, and enjoying the Holiday Season!  If you haven't seen them yet, the Positive Feedback 2024 Writers' Choice Awards have been published (HERE).  Here's my contribution to the 2024 Writers' Choice Awards: The Writers' Choice Awards are always a special time of year in that I'm able to reflect back on... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! The Holiday Season in the USA is marching in with full force with Thanksgiving arriving tomorrow - Happy Thanksgiving to all! This year I'm cooking a traditional Thanksgiving meal of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, maybe a veggie side dish or two, and I ordered a sweet... Read More »

Greeting friends, I hope you are doing great, and your lives are filled with joy!  When the temperature falls below freezing, my cherished outdoors activities of cycling and motorbiking scale way back, signaling the official start of the "Hi-Fi" and "Audio-Visual" Seasons here at my place.  Last week a couple of pals and I got... Read More »

I'm not completely sure how it happened. A few listens to 78s here and there. Peter Qvortrup sharing his enthusiasm for 78s with me. The Audio Note (UK) vacuum tube CD players being in residence here during their reviews. Slowly but surely I've slipped into the reverie of enjoying 78 records from the acoustic and... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! Here in the Pacific Northwest cool Fall weather has finally descended upon us, reducing the number of opportunities for bicycle & motorbike adventures in the great outdoors. I put on my cool weather bicycling attire and went out for an increasingly rare bicycle ride a few days... Read More »

As is my custom, I like to provide readers of Jeff's Place a preview of upcoming feature articles for Positive Feedback, which in this case is the Audio Note (UK) M6 RIAA phono preamplifier. Update: The full feature article has now been published at Positive Feedback HERE.    Enjoy!  Greetings, friends, I hope you are... Read More »

When I'm not at home playing audio & music games, and writing about them for my fellow audio travelers, I like to get out and about on 2 wheels - either bicycling or motorcycling - to go exploring. I've been enjoying bicycling now for almost 63 years, motorcycling for about 55 years, with my interest... Read More »

The Pacific Audio Fest for 2024 is a wrap! Kudos to Lou Hinkley and Gary Gill, for putting on an excellent Pacific Audio Fest - the "Best Fest in the West" -  that included exhibitors of high-performance audio equipment in 25 rooms, two nights of live music in Maxis Nightclub, daily seminars from industry leaders,... Read More »

I'm not quite sure how Audio Note (UK) accomplishes it, exactly. It is particularly noticeable with their Level 4 components like the Tomei 211 SET integrated amp, and the M6 RIAA phono preamplifier that is the primary subject of this post.   Here's what I hear: These components are incredibly resolving, making it easy to... Read More »

Greetings friends! I hope you are doing well and enjoying life.  My primary focus at the moment is listening to the Audio Note (UK) M6 RIAA phono stage, and playing tons of records to top-off its bedding in time of 100 hours.  From the Audio Note (UK) website: "The M6 RIAA phono stage requires around... Read More »

Every once in a while something magnificent happens that gets me all excited about audio at a level that only a child waiting for Christmas to arrive understands completely.  Good ol' Saint Nicholas is coming and he's bringing something special for you and me! In this case Saint Nicholas is Gary Fischer (Gary Fischer Speakers),... Read More »