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 »

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 »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! I just got the latest email update on the Pacific Audio Fest for 2024, and here's the scoop: A Month Away! Pacific Audio Fest - Sept. 6-8, 2024. This is the last week to book discounted sleeping rooms at the Hilton Sea-Tac so Book Now for a... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! 🙂  I love getting out on two wheels for a little exercise (bicycles) and a little exploring (motorbikes). The Spring weather up until now has been kind of erratic with rain, wind, cold, and heat, but I've been able to get in enough two wheel action on... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing great!  Life just seems to keep getting busier, but in good ways.  As I transition into the Winter months my activities tend to shift from outside to inside. I go full INFJ with my writing, reading books, music, audio, weight lifting for exercise, and just generally enjoying a... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are well! It is March Madness here at Jeff's Place! No, no, I'm not talking about basketball, March is all about audio (and video) here at Jeff's Place.  Acoustic Revive If you haven't had a chance to catch up on the latest Acoustic Revive news yet, you can see it... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! The dark winter months of January and February are tough for a lot of us. The winter weather where I live means I can't get outside much for my bicycling and motorcycling attitude adjustments due to cold temperatures and dangerous icy roads. Getting in a workout with... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! I was just telling my Facebook pals about the weird Fall weather we have been having here in the Pacific Northwest. For a while we were about 10F warmer than average, which made it really nice for getting out on the bicycle or motorcycle for Fall rides. ... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing great! I'll start with the "other stuff" first, which is about my likely last multi-day motorbike ride of 2023 as the inclement Fall weather arrives - which officially signals the start of the indoor audio season!  For those interested in audio only you can scroll down the page... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! Fall has fallen here at home, with temperatures dropping, inclement weather settling in, sweaters coming out of the closet, hot toddies in the mugs ... which all signal one thing - the start of the Holiday Audio Season - cheers!  It also signals that I'll be getting... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well! I'm starting to feel better now, and am back in the saddle after recovering from a recent surgery. The surgery turned out to be more of an ordeal than I was expecting, so my ability to write was impacted, causing delays for all the cool hifi kit... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well!  I've been enjoying the improving springtime weather here. Like the last few years, this could to turn out to be an extra-hot year, as we were within 1 degree of the hottest temperature on record here for this time of year just a few days ago.  That... Read More »

For me, the end of a year is always a time for reflection upon the events of the past year, as well as doing a bit of daydreaming about what the coming year might hold!  2022 Highlights!  2022 actually felt like life was almost starting to get back to normal, with a waning coronavirus pandemic,... Read More »

Murphy's Law has been going full steam ahead in my life lately, it seems, with a series of Murphy-like disasters shuffling aside my plans for some travel and adventure on a motorcycle tour through Eastern Washington, Northern Idaho, and Western Montana, that I had scheduled for this week. While I wait for life's positive vibes... Read More »

A couple of good friends - Leo and Santos - stopped by for a little "single-ended-triode (SET) amplifier and wine tasting event" here at Jeff's Place.    It's always fun to get together with good friends like Leo and Santos for a little wine tasting, single-ended-triode amplifier 'tasting', good food, and good music. It's the perfect way... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well. It seems like my audio list of topics to write about just keeps growing, and at times I ponder how I'll be able to keep up with everything going on. Not necessarily a bad 'problem' to have for an audio nut.  However, particularly - at least for... Read More »

2021 is now coming to a close, with just a few weeks to go before 2022 lands in our lap, so this seems like a good time to wish you all a Happy Holidays! Actually, let me revise that slightly, Happy Everything to you! The New Arrivals! The last few weeks have been absolutely thrilling... Read More »

Greetings friends, I hope you are doing well. I always get retrospective in the closing months of a year, looking to the past, and giving consideration to where I'm at in life, while I try to 'crystal ball' my best guess for what the future holds.  There's been so much change in my life over... Read More »

Greetings folks, I hope you are doing well, and welcome to Jeff's Place!  Other Stuff I'll start with the other stuff. I've been ogling new motorbikes ever since I gave away my vintage Honda CR450 cafe racer in January to a young lad and his father for a little father-son fun-time of getting it back up... Read More »

Jeff here, and welcome to Jeff's Place! I hope you are doing well and holding up during this extended coronavirus pandemic.  I know a lot of people are stressed out - including me - and are looking for ways to destress during this extended pandemic.  Of course, if you are reading this, then like me, music... Read More »