Jay's Audio Journey

nc42acc said:
Serge what Porsche have you owned?
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I was into 911 GT3 and GT3RS of various generations. Also had a few Boxster Spyders a Cayman R, Carrera 4S, Cayenne GTS. The GT3s and especially RS were always a good financial play. Got to drive them and walk away with more coins in the pocket than they cost me. :cool: Same with the Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale. I’ve lost money on corvettes, mustangs, Nissan GTR and Audi R8 V10 6 speed manual (which I should have kept longer). Net- net the hobby was fun and didn’t cost me much of anything in depreciation in the 15 years I was into cars due to people willing to pay premiums on rare Porsche cars. Can’t say the same about audio toys. :)
 
kzhtoo said:
He’s owned or still owns 12 Porsche. That’s a lot of Porsche I must say.
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I had my fun for sure. I didn’t get out to track as much as I was hoping to and driving a car that is meant mostly for track on the street gets old. A few blasts here and there gets the adrenaline going but it is completely idiotic to try to tap into the potential of a performance car on the street. It’s like playing with a 2000w amplifier and trying to see if you can reach clipping levels…

Plenty of great track toys to chose from if one is serious about driving at 8/10 and higher on the track where they shine


Sorry about the thread detour Jay. Back to your channel.
 
TheOctopus said:
I was into 911 GT3 and GT3RS of various generations. Also had a few Boxster Spyders a Cayman R, Carrera 4S, Cayenne GTS. The GT3s and especially RS were always a good financial play. Got to drive them and walk away with more coins in the pocket than they cost me. :cool: Same with the Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale. I’ve lost money on corvettes, mustangs, Nissan GTR and Audi R8 V10 6 speed manual (which I should have kept longer). Net- net the hobby was fun and didn’t cost me much of anything in depreciation in the 15 years I was into cars due to people willing to pay premiums on rare Porsche cars. Can’t say the same about audio toys. :)
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Hi Serge ,

Very familiar with all of the cars listed but what about the audio, did you ever pursue a sota system ...?



Regards
 
I am fortunate I live about 20 minutes from VIR.

So Serge do you have a world class audio system?


TheOctopus said:
I had my fun for sure. I didn’t get out to track as much as I was hoping to and driving a car that is meant mostly for track on the street gets old. A few blasts here and there gets the adrenaline going but it is completely idiotic to try to tap into the potential of a performance car on the street. It’s like playing with a 2000w amplifier and trying to see if you can reach clipping levels…

Plenty of great track toys to chose from if one is serious about driving at 8/10 and higher on the track where they shine


Sorry about the thread detour Jay. Back to your channel.
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a.wayne said:
Hi Serge ,

Very familiar with all of the cars listed but what about the audio, did you ever pursue a sota system ...?





Regards
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Sure for 30 years… All kinds of systems. ARC, Lamm, McIntosh, Krell, Bryston, BAT, etc… many different speakers.

The pinnacle of my personal quest was a custom build dedicated 2Ch/Theater room with all Wilson speakers (Alexia, Polaris then Mezzo, Watch surrounds and D’Agostino Momentum monoblocks driving 3 front channels and Brystons on the surround and rear Wilson’s. All transparent cabling.

It was a very fun room to watch music concerts and listen to music. I moved to another house some years later. Would I do it again? Nope… I’m just having too much fun listening to my favorite jazz in a much smaller room which sounds very good with my Harbeth speakers. As far as movies, today’s 4K OLED screens are more than adequate so I can’t get enough motivation going to try and duplicate or best the previous attempt with a custom room and a projector.

This was my pinnacle and as far as I got.

 
a.wayne said:
Thanks ....!

Love the look of the room , So your current setup is based around HarbethÂ’s ..?



Regards
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Thanks

Yes Harbeth 30.2 and PrimaLuna Dialogue Premium HP with EL34Â’s running in triode mode most days. The Harbeth are fairly tube friendly. ItÂ’s a system I assembled for a musical and fatigue free presentation. It delivers. I could play the upgrade game but see no need for now and itÂ’s been a few years already which is way longer than was the norm
 
Jay's Audio Lab said:
Because i can...
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Jay, I made a respectful suggestion and asked a legitimate question. I've also followed your thread for many years on Audiogon and have caught every
Youtube video you've posted as far as I can tell, supporting your channel to the extent that subscribing and likes can do so.

This response was curt and uncalled for.
 
SCAudiophile said:
Jay, I made a respectful suggestion and asked a legitimate question. I've also followed your thread for many years on Audiogon and have caught every
Youtube video you've posted as far as I can tell, supporting your channel to the extent that subscribing and likes can do so.

This response was curt and uncalled for.
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SORRY, my apologies. I have had a lot of people who have asked the same question and i am simply do not have an answer to the question.
 
Jay's Audio Lab said:
SORRY, my apologies. I have had a lot of people who have asked the same question and i am simply do not have an answer to the question.
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@Jay, thank you very much. The problem as I'm sure you have surmised from all those asking the same question is that it essentially turns into a
"pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" proposition that captures more attention due to objection than the test scenario you are hoping
to promote.

I also understand there are many possible reasons why you might not want to, or be able to show the compared piece(s) in question however there are a multitude of better ways to say that.
 
SCAudiophile said:
@Jay, thank you very much. The problem as I'm sure you have surmised from all those asking the same question is that it essentially turns into a
"pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" proposition that captures more attention due to objection than the test scenario you are hoping
to promote.

I also understand there are many possible reasons why you might not want to, or be able to show the compared piece(s) in question however there are a multitude of better ways to say that.
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I agree. Thank you
 
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