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 »

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 »

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 »