Sad news - Jay sold his new Rockport Lyra speakers

@tonywinga I smiled when I read you comment on Alan Parsons. I was probably 16 when I bought that album and thought this guy was a genius. Those were the days. Albums that were woven together using all kinds of instrument but also had a theme connecting the songs together!! Wow. Fast forward to last night. What album was I enjoying on CD? Alan Parsons Eye in the Sky. Still sounds great! The CD has cuts that my  LP doesn’t and is worth having. I enjoyed all of his works.

Now back to your regularly scheduled thread.

I love it @corelli.  That's what the music is all about.  The other special thing about Tales of Mystery and Imagination for me is I got that Mobile Fidelity version by trading the shirt off my back for it.  I've told this story before, so i hope I'm not boring anyone.  

It was 1994, I was out in the desert doing hot fuel testing with the Ford team.  I drove to Las Vegas that afternoon to take the redeye back to Detroit so I had some time to kill.  I found a stereo store there to browse around in.  I was wearing my team golf shirt with the Bosch and Ford logos on it.  It was pretty smelly and dirty after being in the desert all day.  So I walk into the store and the owner right away tells me he likes my shirt.  He was a Ford man and he sold Blaupunkt Radios (part of Bosch).  I spotted that Alan Parson's Mobile Fidelity record on his rack and offered to trade my golf shirt for it.  He agreed so I went to the car and got another shirt to wear out of my suitcase.  He got a smelly shirt and I got a Mobile Fidelity record.  I smile every time I put that record on.

Let's assume Jay is in the pockets of the high-end brands and isn't out of pocket for any costs. Then what's the incentive for him NOT to do Steve Huff puff-reviews where everything new is the best thing since Sydney Sweeny's cleavage?

If he makes mistakes vis a vis gear choices that don't jibe with his evolving tastes, the insinuation is he's the Wizard of Oz and the curtain is torn. How about he's just a human being making a play to do something he likes to make money, thus sometimes he gets mud on his face, but more often than not if you listen carefully to what he says about everything from speaker impedance and placement issues to a DAC or server's software UI or a preamplifier's synergy with other components in his system, you get high-end gear insights you won't get anywhere else. 

I just don't get the animosity Jay seems to engender in some people, it seems less to do with him and more to do with the Audiogon community.

He is an honest person as much as many others reviewers...

Reviewers sells but they can do it in a way which is informative or not...

Then i think you are right ...

Let's assume Jay is in the pockets of the high-end brands and isn't out of pocket for any costs. Then what's the incentive for him NOT to do Steve Huff puff-reviews where everything new is the best thing since Sydney Sweeny's cleavage?

If he makes mistakes vis a vis gear choices that don't jibe with his evolving tastes, the insinuation is he's the Wizard of Oz and the curtain is torn. How about he's just a human being making a play to do something he likes to make money, thus sometimes he gets mud on his face, but more often than not if you listen carefully to what he says about everything from speaker impedance and placement issues to a DAC or server's software UI or a preamplifier's synergy with other components in his system, you get high-end gear insights you won't get anywhere else. 

I just don't get the animosity Jay seems to engender in some people, it seems less to do with him and more to do with the Audiogon community.