As is my custom, I like to give readers of Jeff's Place a preview of upcoming feature articles for Positive Feedback, which in this case is about the legendary Audio Note (UK) Ongaku 211 SET integrated amplifier.  The Ongaku is crazy good, and it has really rocked my world with its extraordinary level of performance, and forever... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 I am giddy with anticipation while I'm warming up the audio system to try the Audio Note (UK) AN-S9 SUT that just arrived, which is a recommended pairing with the Audio Note (UK) Io Ltd. field-coil, moving-coil phonograph cartridge and power supply!  These two vinyl source components... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 This is the continuation of my Part 1 post, where I compared the Tomei and Ongaku using the Audio Note UK CD 5.1x Red Book CD player as a source.   Audio Note UK CD 5.1x Red Book CD player. You might remember that when I compared... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! 🙂 I wanted to do a little comparative listening with the Audio Note (UK) Tomei and Ongaku 211 integrated amplifiers today, using the Audio Note (UK) CD 5.1x Red Book CD player as a source. Audio Note (UK) CD 5.1x Red Book CD player. Before I forget, here's... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing great! I've been noodling about how to best proceed with writing about the Audio Note (UK) Level Five suite of source and amplification components I have here: the I0 Ltd. field-coil moving-coil phonograph cartridge and its power supply, the AN-S9 step-up transformer, the M8 RIAA phono preamplifier, and... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well!  All's good here, and I am just enjoying all things music, audio, and life. 🙂 I had a nice time visiting with friends Alden and Carolyn this week when they stopped by Jeff's Place while in town.  Alden and Carolyn have a really beautiful audio system at... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well!  I've been doing some exploratory listening with three of my four audio systems today in a round-robin format, listening to each system for a while, which is always a good reality check for audio system performance.  One of the standouts today was listening to CDs in the main... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope your week is going well.  I've got an incredible performing set of audio kit here right now that I'm listening to: My West's with their usual silver / copper Duelund CAST crossovers, the all-silver Ongaku 211 SET integrated amplifier, the all-silver M8 RIAA phono preamp, the all-silver AN-S8 SUT, my CTC... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well. In a previous post I was telling you that I was in a state of complete awe at the performance level of the Audio Note (UK) Tomei 211 SET integrated amplifier (above) powering my Duelund-ized Tannoy Westminster Royal SEs.  I said about the Tomei 211 SET, "I've never... Read More »