Greetings friends, I hope you are well. 🙂 

I hope you were one of the fortunate ones to attend the Pacific Audio Fests, you know what great fun the Fests were.

Here's a couple of photos to remind you of all the fun to be had at the Pacific Audio Fests. 

PAF show Director and Founder of the Pacific Audio Fest, Lou Hinkley, really knocked it out of the park at the Fests with excellent listening rooms, live music concerts, a marketplace room, headphones listening stations, free wine, beer, and whiskey tasting, seminars by industry experts, and much more!

Above: PAF show Director and Founder, Lou Hinkley.

Above: Marjorie and Lou at the registration desk helping Fest goers get all they need for a fun visit.

Above: Genesis Advanced Technologies listening room at Pacific Audio Fest 2022.

Above: Genesis Advanced Technologies listening room at Pacific Audio Fest 2022.

Above: R2R, vinyl, and digital sources in the  Genesis Advanced Technologies listening room at Pacific Audio Fest 2022.

Above: The Marketplace room!

Above: Free wine, beer, and whiskey tasting!

Above: The live music was impressive!

Above: The Halie Loren Quartet!

Above: Live music with the Paul Sawtelle Big Band!

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

Genesis Advanced Technologies has a real treat for all of us with the release of the premium 45 RPM two LP release of The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest. 

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

You'll want to grab this ultra-premium one-step vinyl pressing of The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest on two 45rpm 180g LPs issued by Genesis Advanced Technologies.

The album was recorded & mixed direct to 2-track tape, and was mastered by Bernie Grundman, and is strictly limited to 3,000 copies.

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

This two-LP 45 RPM set of The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest is going to sell out fast and will quickly become a collectors item, so order yours ASAP to make sure you can get a copy. 

While my audio buddy Alden was visiting, he told me that the The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest album was the highest quality album he'd ever seen, and I concur, it really is something special. 

The album will be available on-line through Elusive Disc in the USA, and through various stores, dealers and distributors around the world. 

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

Here's what Genesis Advanced Technologies had to say in their press release about The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest:

"Genesis Advanced Technologies and Merrill Audio Advanced Technologies co-sponsored the Friday Night entertainment for show goers at the inaugural Pacific Audiofest in 2022. We hired a local band-leader, Mr. Paul Sawtelle, to put a 17-piece big band together for a concert."

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

"“This album was total serendipity,” said Genesis Chief Designer and CEO Gary Koh. “We got a couple of friends together to record the concert for ourselves and to give to the band members. Then the band knocked it out of the park. Everyone enjoyed it so much that we decided to hire the band again the next year.”"

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

"The recording chain was as simple as possible. Assembled by Dr Phillip Chance and Mr Ki Choi, it comprised a pair of vintage Neumann TLM50 microphones direct to 2-track tape on a Nagra IVs with QGB. The vocals were mixed in on some of the tracks with a Nagra VI. “When I first heard the recording on tape, I knew that we had to share it with other big band music lovers,” said Koh. “I managed to convince my partners at Hyper Analogue Production and Brilliance Music & Studios to finance the production. The sound and music is so good that we are releasing it as Volume 2 of the Hyper Music Reference Standard.”

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

"The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest is more than an album of music. It is a tribute to the times when swing was king and 17-piece bands were commonplace. The band that Paul led – the Kings of Swing – originated in 1944 at Seattle’s Cleveland High School and played through the war years at service clubs, USO dances and YMCAs. 36 pages of liner notes bring the history and story of the music together in a super-premium package.

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

"Mr Bernie Grundman mastered the music with Koh in attendance in the studio. “We went to great lengths to preserve the absolute fidelity of the band’s performance,” said Mr Koh. “When I heard the first test pressings, I scrapped everything. It was done using the normal lacquer, father, mother, stamper, album process. I thought the sound didn’t meet my expectations. I had Bernie re-cut all the lacquers for a One Step production. 16 lacquers in total. Now, it’s sounding like the entire 17-piece band turned up in my living room.”"

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

Above: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest!

I've attended all the Pacific Audio Fests, and they are a blast. If you haven't you should, and the next one is coming up in 2026 - more info HERE. 

I was there for this concert and observed Gary Koh and pals recording the performance, and they looked like they were having a ball.

This is one of those albums that will go down in audiophile history, and I'll be writing a full feature review of it for Positive Feedback in the not too distant future, so stay tuned for much more!

A huge thank you to Gary Koh (Genesis Advanced Technologies) for sending me a copy of The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest so I could tell all of my fellow audio travelers here at Jeff's Place and Positive Feedback about this exciting album. Thanks, Gary! 

A word to the wise: The Paul Sawtelle Big Band Live at Pacific Audiofest will sell out fast and will quickly become a collectors item, so order ASAP to make sure you can get a copy. 

The album will be available on-line through Elusive Disc in the USA, so get it while you can. 

As always, thanks for stopping by, and may the tone be with you!