Jay's Audio Lab Visits GR Research's Listening Room

It seemed to me that Jay was polite but not blown away. The expectation of such a large, grand system could be a tall order (no pun intended). The music selection on the video didn't seem to match the dynamic capability. Not exciting music.

If the listening level is around 75 to 80 db you don't need this many speakers to get there. It's way over kill imo.

You can get an excellent DIY system for MUCH less money that plays plenty loud without looking like overpowering skyskrapers and probably sounds better being played at volume matched to the room size.

@gdaddy1 

Funny.  I got the same impression you did in regards to Jay’s reaction to what he was hearing from audio system at GR Research.  Jay didn’t seem too impressed with the sound, and he couldn’t talk his way around it, because you could see it in his facial expressions.  Just goes to show you how individual each of our audio systems are, and how we may think our systems are the greatest since sliced bread, but others my not feel the same.  Happy listening.         

I have audited the GR tower and it has some sonic semblance to the irs that used to be set up at the ps audio factory. I felt the ps audio room was too small for the irs, however. If you are sitting farfield, the room comes way more in play as well.

The weak link in Danny’s rig is not the speaker, imo, but, the dinky caliber electronics Danny tends to use. It almost felt like he either didn’t know that...a certain caliber of electronics existed or didn’t care (i didn’t say it explicitly to his face to upset him, of course). Jay, on the other hand is probably used to a heavy hitting/meatheaded front-end.

Open baffle bass can also throw some people off for a minute.

It would be interesting to see Jay trial that tower in his room with his front-end.

You can get an excellent DIY system for MUCH less money that plays plenty loud without looking like overpowering skyskrapers and probably sounds better being played at volume matched to the room size.

I’ve got the NX-Oticas in my listening room with about $50k of power conditioning and 1st rate cables.  Only have a $25k digital front end, but my rig sounds MUCH better than Danny’s.  I made some of Danny’s cables and they degraded the sound significantly.  Great for modest systems but you don’t want to subject Danny’s NX series speakers to them.

I’ve got a very good 300B integrated amp driving these and most of the folks in our audio club are shocked at how good the SQ is with only 9 watts.