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Sad news - Jay sold his new Rockport Lyra speakers

Just released, after five months of mystery, new speakers that replaced the Wilson chronosonic $350 mil speakers, that were announced with all kinds of fanfare just a few weeks ago are on their way out.

So the $200,000 Rockport lyras, we learn in a dramatic and solemn 90 minute video, were not acceptable so they had to go.

Not everyone has a forum that allows disposal of speakers as does Jay. How incredibly difficult it must be for anyone to make such a serious investment and then be disappointed. And the rest of us who didn’t buy the speakers at a discount will somehow come to terms with a $50-$80,000 loss and that’s just downright depressing.

How does one buy speakers in the vast six digits range? And then how difficult it must be to admit to yourself, and then to your wife, that you’re unhappy. And then how does one muster the courage to go on and purchase another incredibly expensive speaker. Personally I found buying every audio component incredibly annoying and challenging yet you carry on hoping the prize at the end of the unpleasant journey Will be worth it.

Personally I think all the time about upgrading my speaker and then when I see things like this I’m at a loss as to what to do. These types of miserable experiences should be Hidden from public view as it impacts all of us. It’ll be a while before I get over this, maybe I should begin focussing on my thoughts to upgrade my pre-amplifier or replace tubes on my amplifier. Or maybe I should just learn to be satisfied with what I have.

 

 

 

 

emergingsoul
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mahgister
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For someone as me or a regular dude , learning concretely by hearing them , what a pair of speakers can do in a room for your specific ears with specific gear , ask for a very long time of experiments in acoustic to finetune and optimize the speakers...

Then plugging them in a wall and reviewing them appear to me preposterous... Only reviewers must do that...

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magnuman
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emergingsoul,

I guess you haven't heard by now that Jay does not buy most of his stuff he gets it from dealers to showcase so it's not costing him a thing, so it's not poor baby Jay lol, and just for your knowledge his name is Dave don't know why he doesn't want to use his real name, I know someone who knows him and he gave me the scoop and he told me that Jay does not pay for almost all of this stuff so you don't have to feel sorry for him

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hilde45
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Jay's show is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Audio Version.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - Wikipedia

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cleeds
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hilde45

Jay's show is Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous ...

His listening room looks like a garage.

emergingsoul OP
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The cement foundation he has under his listening space can’t be the greatest. He had a problem with an amplifier that had to be returned because the speakers he had could not be biamplified.

I don’t understand why he begs for people to like his videos so much. Yes he may get a few thousand views but it takes in excess of 100,000 views to get anything meaningful paid from YouTube. He’s not making any money from YouTube and maybe he makes his money by charging fees to all those people who sign up for private messaging. Or maybe he gets a lot of money from speaker manufacturers which is hard to believe. I don’t follow the business logic of what he’s trying to do. He works really hard but can be misleading at times. I think after getting rid of the last speaker his credibility is unclear.

It’s fascinating and even more fascinating to read the comments he gets. I learn a lot by reading comments as there’s a lot of people out there who really know what they’re doing.

 

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