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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]