Thanks to everyone for the well wishes on my 1oth anniversary as an audio writer! I appreciate Mike’s encouragement to write a little more about recordings too, because that’s something I always intend to do, but the software scene seems to get away from me when I’m trying to keep up with the hardware scene! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been listening to the breadboarded versions of the Duelund crossovers on the Westminster Royal SE’s this week, in the evenings after I got home from the office, and man, what a revelation! I decided to take today off and get some more work done on Duelund-WRSE Project.  Before getting started on what I need to [...]

If you’ve been following along you know that Siedy (photo below) has been a true inspiration for yours truly. If it wasn’t for Siedy I would never have had the opportunity to try the superb ASR electronics that are hand-crafted by Friedrich Schaefer in Herborn, Germany. It was a wonderful experience writing about the ASR electronics [...]

I just finished up installing the other Duelund crossover on the right Westminster Royal SE, so now I have a stereo pair up and running. Not bad progress for a weekends worth of work! I was able to improve the layout of the right channel pair of Duelund crossovers and make it quite a bit more [...]

I was chatting with Frederik Carøe in Denmark this morning by email while waking up with some nice hot coffee (medium roasted Kenya beans). I wanted to give Frederik an update on how things are going with the Duelund-WRSE Project, and ask Frederick for any suggestions he might have on improvements and such.   I [...]

Stephaen sent an early morning email: “I’m going to stop at the El Fat Cat Grill taco truck and get us lunch, and I’ll meet you and Pete at your place at noon.” While the El Fat Cat Grill is actually a taco truck, referring to it as ‘taco truck’ is like referring to the [...]

In the Duelund-WRSE Crossover Project we are using the Duelund Coherent Audio Silver / Carbon resistors exclusively in the circuits (seen on the far right in the photo below). Resistors are inherently simple electrical devices that are used to control the flow of current in a crossover circuit by providing a constant resistance that does [...]