members and their systems

Dr Porsche rests serene. His vision is still very much alive and well.  
https://youtu.be/bXRyy-RBuzc?t=598

The wheels in that video are sick. I only wonder what it would cost to replace one if you blow it out. ($5K or more).

Pretty sure they will be at least a $20k option. But, carbon fiber! And remember, this is unsprung weight. I'm also getting PCCB. Together they are probably close to 10 lbs per wheel. 40 lbs might not sound like much but again, unsprung weight! Lighter wheels respond to the road much faster for better handling and a more supple ride. Also the lighter rims are much less mass to spin, so both braking and acceleration improve. Finally, carbon fiber is inherently vibration damping. So a smoother more quiet ride. 

Based on your comments, I guess this is my last car (that only I drive with rare exception). In only put on 5K a year. I'm surprised you didn't mention any GT3s or GT2s. I guess you are talking about cars you can fairly easily find without breaking the bank.

By home run I mean the combination of a whole lot of different factors. The GT cars are always in a league of their own. But so is the Carrera GT. So is the 918. That's not what I mean. Your 997 isn't as fast as any of them, or as rare. But there is a balance of factors that come together to create a certain driving experience. I don't really know how to explain it. The 991 is a much better, faster car. In every way. But there is a special fun factor that your 997 has that the 991 just doesn't. Not saying it is not a great car. Totally is. Just not in the same way. You love your GTS, enjoy it. You will have a hard time finding better. 

Also, at 5k miles a year you will find it is going up in value. If not already then soon. All Porsche cars begin to appreciate at about 12-15 years. Some sooner, but all no matter what stop losing value and start going up like that. My 911SC was very common, depreciated from $25k to around $12k the first 10-12 years. Then started slowly rising. People are silly about these things, they only notice sort of at random. Gosh the market is getting hot they say. When in reality there was a long steady appreciation going on for years. They just don't notice. Until one day the SC is selling for $35-40k, way more than when new, they act like this is so shocking. Look around. See what I'm saying is true. Even the 996 are going up! Guess when that started happening? Around 2015. When the first ones were 15 years old. Just like I said. Right on schedule.   

Even as great as the 911 is, there have over the years been a few times Porsche really hit a home run. Not necessarily the fastest, but the best combination of speed, handling and comfort that combine for indescribably fun factor. The first was the 911SC. Then the 964RSA. The last one was the 997.2.  

The 997 GTS came with magnetorheological fluid filled motor mounts. These motor mounts change from squishy commuter comfort to rock hard race in milliseconds. Computer controlled. When I say rock hard race, when I nailed it at 5k in 2nd the car did not merely accelerate, it felt as if we had been rear-ended! I have been in a Cup Car. Those the engine is hard mounted. You feel every ingition every cylinder. The 997 you feel comfort- until you nail it and it becomes a Cup Car. 

This people is just the motor mounts. All this technology, and we are just talking about the freaking motor mounts. In a 911 from two generations ago.

sokogear, your GTS is a home run. Drove it, know it.  Check it out, according to this carbon fiber wheels with center locking hubs will be an option on the 992.2! https://youtu.be/y4k05gh58WE?t=517 

Anyone sells a 911 to buy a Camry is beyond help. I don’t care how old you are. As Jerry Seinfeld says, "This is a dead man’s car." It is a bit much to say you should be buried in it. But only a bit.

I got my first 911 30 years ago and recently told my wife I’m driving the next one forever. Here it is. https://youtu.be/bXRyy-RBuzc?t=566 Watch closely, you can see the ride change from Sport to Normal. Only in a Porsche 911 is 190mph "Normal".

When the 996 came out it was head and shoulders a better car than any 911 that came before. But it was different. So it caught flack. The iconic 911 door closing sound was gone. I complained about this to an older more experienced Porsche man.

"That’s nothing!" he said, "You should have seen it when the 911 came out! The 356 was entirely made by hand, the 356 guys would say the door closed like a bank vault, the 911 you have to slam it."

The 992 is the best Porsche. Until the next one. https://youtu.be/bXRyy-RBuzc?t=565 Watch when he changes from Sport to Normal, you can see the ride go smooth on the video. 322kph. 200mph. Fizz in the pants. https://youtu.be/bXRyy-RBuzc?t=793

The new 992 has the most head and leg room, AP fits in it easily and he is at least 6ft. Only problem, their entire MY21 allocation is already filled for some models. Or so I have heard. Not quite ready to order mine so don't know for certain yet but it sure looks like at least the C4S is sold out through the end of the year. 

I know, it is a surprise, finding quality Porsche content on an audiophile site. It's not the site. It's just me. Being me.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqCFCUn6MM

For the long time I have been on here I see that some members will start a thread that goes haywire at warp speed: Start with a headline that sounds like one subject, like members and their systems. Then switch to a completely different subject, like people who flip components. Then raise a point that could be useful, like how to prioritize your purchases. But switch it up again to something completely unrelated and frankly no one’s business, like where do you get the money? Finally, this not being good enough, the true haywire post bait and switches completely to what no one can ever answer, which is how "members" do it. Because "members" is imaginary, an aggregate, it makes no sense. Any answer will do. We rob trains. If some "members" do then the answer is correct. We deal drugs. We rob everyone left and right. We work in banking.

But I repeat myself.

I was in Leavenworth one time and the Ferrari club was there on a tour. Friendly folk, real enthusiasts and happy to talk about their cars. One of them made a point of letting me know virtually all of them were just normal people making normal money. Plenty of examples.

So I have a hunch it is just normal people, only with maybe a different set of priorities. I pack my own lunch, hardly ever eat out, haven’t had a cell phone or the monthly bill that goes with it - ever. No Starbucks habit. Worked weekend doubles, OT, took call, paid off my 15 year mortgage in 8 years.

Not that it’s any of your business. Where do you get the time to ask nosy questions? What even makes you feel entitled to ask? Don’t answer. Rather not know. Wouldn’t do any good anyway.

Now then, is there anything you would like to know about members and their systems?

Porsches are very reliable. Something like 60% of every 911 EVER made is still on the road after like 60 years. The difference with Porsche versus Tekton, Better Records and his other commercials he spouts is that MC doesn’t get any special treatment for promoting them.

Wrong. You are so freaking wrong and full of it. Just like all the haters. I will now channel Jack Nicholson: "You can’t handle the truth!"

Here’s the truth: I don’t promote anything! I’m an enthusiast. Period. Something really good comes along, something I care about, I get enthusiastic and share. It is that simple.

You know this is true. You cannot find even one counter example. Also I am a royal tightwad with my money- and unlike most around here with the notable exception of mahgister I am equally tight with everyone else’s money. Constantly telling people do not waste money on this, do not waste money on that. Even with things like the recent Townshend, almost every time I include the fact you can get quite good results with springs like Nobsound and for a whole lot less. Not as good, but awful good for the money. Who in China I wonder is paying me to tell everyone how great Schumann generators are? When I am telling them to buy the cheapest ones around at $9.91 a piece? You are so full of it. So freaking full of it, you don’t even know!

So let me tell you! The best Porsche tech on the Eastside, Squire Tomasie at Squire’s Autowerke. When I needed a new alternator I called Squire and he said what time will you be here? I get off work 2:30 so I guess around 3. "No, what time?" Okay, I get it. "I will be there at 2:55."

So 2:55 I am rolling into the lot and Randy has the bay door up I pull onto the lift and before I can get out of the car he has the lift ready and I pop the lid and he is going to work. I enjoy a beer with Squire, Randy does the work, and I can go on and on with stories like this all day long. Because that is how I roll.

You. Have. No. Freaking. Clue.

You want to be a hater, spend all day venting your spleen (look it up) be my guest. Hope the world treats you as badly for your ill will as it showers pennies from heaven on me for my enthusiasm.

No, seriously, this is an audiophile site. I am an audiophile. A damn serious one. As someone told me recently, it seems this site is more for people who just want to spend all day knocking everyone else showing how great they are, a lot of them probably don’t even have systems.

Insightful comment. Can’t help noticing sokogear, no system. Move along. Please.

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So exactly what is "social" justice, anyway? I mean, besides virtue signaling.

Miller, you failed to mention the reason for not having cell phone, so I can't process that.

Relax. You're not the only one who can't process much. We got one listing 2021 net worth. Nobody knows what 2021 net worth is, for the simple fact it just started. Nobody ever knows what anything was for a year until the year is done. Duh. Yet a whole bunch seem unable to process that one basic fact. 

Net worth is the value of what you have net of debt. Has nothing to do with "income producing assets". People, the first step in being able to process is to understand the freaking terms!  

This is exactly what I meant before about you want to understand, first learn to look at things from a different perspective. Instead of the perspective of, "Ow! You meanie!" try the perspective of reason and rational thought. For starters. 

Otherwise, well, it is starting to feel like this may have been a documentary. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA

Does anyone remember the 80’s when great equipment was at a price anyone could afford.

Does anyone remember the 60's, before the rampant inflation of the 70's that led to the high prices of the 80's? lol! My first stereo was bought with newspaper route and lawn mowing money. Delivered the papers on my Schwinn, same bike I rode to Radio Shack to shop for my stereo on. My first acoustic treatments were egg cartons. My second stereo, Kenwood, Pioneer, Technics and JBL was bought with real money, McDonald's money, $1.85/hr. 

Sorry, correction. This was 1973. We stopped using silver in 1965. The last vestiges of real money. By real money I meant big money. Back then, if you had a $20 bill you were loaded. Rich. You would carry that thing around, feel like a million bucks, do anything to not have to break that twenty. 

This is all nuts and nobody's business, but not just because it is impolite to ask. Politeness varies widely across cultures. It is nuts and nobody's business because it is just plain chaotic disorganized thinking. If you want to talk about money, finance, investing, and how to get ahead in life fine, bring it on. I will dish it out and those who are smart will listen and learn how a totally normal guy who started out with a newspaper route and never made more than an overtime graveyard working x-ray tech winds up in the top 1% able to retire comfortably at 64. 

What this shows is just how nuts the OP's question is. It's not where do we get the money. We don't "get" money, we earn it. One way or another. And once we do earn it, then the question is not so much what do we do with the money, as what do we NOT DO with it. I never had a car when all my friends did. I still do not have a cell phone! Process that one. 

Granted this is a completely different perspective than most are familiar with. Pro Tip for the OP: if you want to be able to afford great gear some day, read and learn, to see things from a completely different point of view.