Jay’s Audio Lab YouTube interview 😂

It doesn’t take long to spend 6 digits on a system or a car these days, 6 digits isn’t that much money to spend on quality items.

What I like about Jay is his honesty. He was 1 of the reviewers that came out and stated the Axpona event had terrible sounding rooms with very expensive gear. No magazine reviewer would ever do that until TAS had to do this because Jay did it. Never ever have a seen a trade magazine reviewer say anything about a bad sounding room at any audio show, and I’ve been to dozens and dozens with dozens and dozens bad sounding rooms.

parkergetdean - I agree with you on those facts too. He buys stuff that he can’t use like those new McIntosh hybrid monoblocks. It’s hit and miss watching his show. It is odd that he raves about certain speakers like Borresen but I have never seen him try a pair. I’ve seen Jay at audio shows and he is personable.

I’ve also been at shows (CES and RMAF) that when a magazine reviewer enters the room, they want the host to either kick out everybody or at least get people to move out of the front center seats so the reviewer has priority. I told myself that is a manufacturer or dealer would ever do that to me or my friends, I would never buy from them in the future.

Is he planning to open up a retail store..?  Does he know that people can't hear his sound room through YouTube?  I mean he's putting all this work into his two sound rooms and most people will never hear it it's very sad.   When I go to his barbecue maybe he'll let people hear his music but then too many people will be there and it'll be very crowded.  
 

I'm totally confused.  

We cannot judge positively a system/room if we are not there ...

But we can spot some negatives easily even through youtube...

We cannot judge  but only negatively  the level of beauty and charm of a woman  with a photo or even with a video , we must see her, walking,speaking, seeing,eating,dreaming,seeing and smiling ,thinking in person to judge her positively ...

Only very problematic mind fall in love with image or video ...It is the same for sound experience...

Then Jay with a good room for his system will eliminate some negatives  impressions or optimized the potential  positives impressions. But we must be there to feel the system/room real value ...