I've been immensely enjoying listening to the "Stokowski" Altec's with the breadboard Duelund CAST tinned-copper crossovers. I haven't really been in any hurry to make changes to anything with the crossovers, which is a good sign that everything is coming together in a synergistic fashion musically and sonically. I've wired the breadboard versions of the... Read More »

I love learning about almost everything, which would help explain my taking time to earn a bachelor's degree in chemistry, a master's degree in chemistry, and a doctorate degree in analytical chemistry.  I have immensely enjoyed studying chemistry, mathematics, physics, law, literature, history, religions, philosophy, art and music, Koine Greek, computers, audio electronics, and many other topics which... Read More »

I bought a fern & roby brass record weight to go with the brass platter on my CTC Garrard 301 turntable, and it came in the mail today. If you flip the fern & roby brass record weight upside down the center piece is the same size as the hole in 45RPM singles records, so... Read More »

I have some exciting Altec news to share with you. The new owners of Great Plains Audio - Troy Audio - envision a bright future for an Altec revival, and as an Altec enthusiast - I have 3 pairs of vintage Altec's - I'm particularly excited about this development!  They're going to be sending me... Read More »

Those of you who have been reading along here at Jeff's Place know I've been having a blast with my modest collection of vintage Altec loudspeakers. With my Westminster's I lost interest in SET's for a while as they need a little more power than most SET's can muster, but now with my Altec's SET friendly sensitivity... Read More »

When I say “HiFi system voicing” you might wonder what I’m referring to. Basically, I’m referring to what any given hifi system sounds like in terms of its particular blend of musicality and audiophile-style sonics, or its overall sound quality. The musicality aspect of hifi performance is referring to performance on the basic elements of music in... Read More »

Greetings music lovers, and welcome to Jeff's Place at Positive Feedback!  I really appreciate Editors Dave & David offering me a spot here on Positive Feedback, and I'm really glad to be here. 🙂 You'll see that all the great content of Jeff's Place has been preserved, which is fantastic, but you will notice a couple of changes... Read More »

I got up this morning and started a load of laundry, made some coffee, and fired up my Stokowski Altec A7 loudspeakers & SPEC RSA-M3 EX Real Sound Amplifier based system. Soon as the coffee was ready, I settled in to catch up on my correspondence while listening to the superb Jazz24 stream. Yazaki-san’s amazing SPEC RSA-M3... Read More »

I am hard at work on my article for Positive Feedback, Adventures in Real Sound with Mr. Shirokazu Yazaki, and thought I'd share a snippet of it with you. I'll add more as time goes on. Adventures in Real Sound with Mr. Shirokazu Yazaki By Jeff Day In Issue 78 I introduced you to the remarkable... Read More »

I'm working hard writing the SPEC Review. I've got all my listening impressions written up for my Leben CS-600 & Harbeth Super HL5 loudspeaker based system (above), and I'm sure a lot of you are wondering how the SPEC Real Sound Amplifier compares to the Leben CS-600. I'm now working on writing up my impressions for... Read More »

There's a nice video on YouTube by rAVe Publications featuring Tim Lount of Tannoy talking about the new Golden Reference versions of the Prestige loudspeaker range (click here to go to the video on YouTube).

It's no secret that I really like the New Valve Order SPA-II phono equalizer and have been using it as my reference, and as I posted earlier, I have the new entry level SPA One in for review (below), and from what I'm hearing it promises to be something special as well. Panicos told me... Read More »

Today I added a Review Archives page to Jeff's Place in the top navigation bar as a resource for finding different articles I had written over the years. As I was putting together a list of links for the article archive I realized that it’s my 10 Year Anniversary writing about Hi-Fi! I started writing about Hi-Fi... Read More »

I just wanted to let you know about something handy I've run across: Peavey color coded microphone ID tape. The Peavey color coded microphone ID tape includes eight rolls of tape in different colors: yellow, blue, red, orange, brown, green, white, and silver. While the intention of the Peavey tape is to identify various stage... Read More »

My little Sophia Electric 300B Vacuum Tube Tasting Extravaganza of the Royal Princess™ 300B, Princess™ Carbon Plate 300B, Princess™ Mesh Plate 300B, and Globe Mesh Plate 300B just went live at Positive Feedback Online for Issue 64 here. I hope you enjoy it - cheers!

I got a nice message from designer extraordinaire Mark Coles of Sablon Audio fame: Hi Jeff, I've listed a Gran Corona on audiogon in a charitable auction to raise funds for the Red Cross Sandy appeal - would you mind bringing this to the attention of your blog followers? http://app.audiogon.com/listings/ac-cables-charity-auction-hurricane-sandy-sablon-audio-gran-corona-2012-11-04-power-uk Cheers, Mark Many thanks to... Read More »

Here's some closeup photos of the Fi 300B mono amplifiers that some of you have been wanting to see. (Click on the photos a couple of times for larger versions) A full complement of ST bottle shapes is sure a treat for the eyes! Not to mention the Heart of Muse Black Gate capacitors and... Read More »

It's Christmas Day is here in the Pacific Northwest, with New Year's Day just around the corner. Here's wishing all of my friends at Jeff's Place a very Merry Christmas and Hanukkah, and I hope your Holiday season is full of family & friends, love, light, great music, and peace!

I had forgotten to mention it earlier, but in the October 2011 'Recommended Components' issue of Stereophile there's a couple of notable mentions: The EMT TSD 15 moving coil phono cartridge landed in 'Class A' by virtue of Art Dudley's earlier review of it. I have become increasingly impressed with my own EMT TSD 15... Read More »

Here's a few photos from my recent trip to France, this time from our stop in Verdun to see the battlefields of World War I. The photo below looks out over the battlefields outside the Fort de Douaumont, the fog eerily rolling in as we stopped. In the battlefields of Verdun hundreds of thousands of... Read More »

I found out that there are a couple of new Acoustic Revive products being released towards the middle to end of December, the first being the RUI - 1 USB Isolator. The press announcement about the RUI-1 USB Isolator says,  "The biggest problem in PC based audio is the huge amount of ‘noise’ generated by... Read More »

The 7th Annual Positive Feedback Online's Writers' Choice Awards for 2010 are now online for your reading pleasure - enjoy!

Quite a few years ago I bought an Acoustic Sounds test pressing of You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce and I have really enjoyed it. The test pressings used to be offered cheaper than the regular versions of the LP because they didn't have any cover art, so I bought them whenever I could... Read More »