Jay’s Audio Lab is shutting down

I wish he discussed how he purchases his items he reviews....Is he getting new units from dealers he has connections with at a steep discount so he can always sell them used and recover his money? is he buying his gear used? he always says he uses his own money so they aren't loaned from the manufacture for review unless he is lying. There is def no way he is paying full retail for any of this stuff or he would lose his tail on it because he doesn't make enough off of the videos alone to eat up that depreciation loss every time he opens a box and makes a product used.

Does he really make hundreds of thousands of dollars from his YouTube channel? I could be wrong, but my guess is that he's got other areas of income as well. 

I checked out Jay’s website to see if any of his gears being sold off before his move and there’s only like one speaker and a few pieces of very high priced gear but not much else. I thought he would sell the tad speakers but no. 

Maybe they’ll be a sale before he moves.  Maybe He’s going into a partnership with an audio dealer.  His famous name will mean a lot to that dealer. 

I also think Jay is a good honest guy, much more so than those reviewers in the magazines. Jay will tell you a room he didn’t like at an audio show where up until a year ago, you would never hear a magazine reviewer state an expensive gear room sounded bad. I personally think that Jay’s comments about bad sounding rooms at axpona made a magazine review of axpona have a section on bad sounding rooms. 
I don’t think 6 digits is too much to spend on a piece of equipment nor do I think 6 digits is too expensive for a car. A decent Porsche is $150k on up, it’s the price you pay for quality. But, after covid, I went to the Tampa audio show and a company was asking a fortune for a 2 way speaker that my small revels in my 3rd room would crush for 1/8 the price. I haven’t seen that company for a while so maybe they aren’t around anymore.

@larsman 

There’s no way he’s making that amount of money from his YouTube channel.  My only guess is that he his wife is VERY understanding and probably has a good job.