He is not, to the best of my knowledge. Jay is, or was, a few years ago, connected to the family's hospitality sort of local empire -- only. I saw Jay last when he kindly invited me to the Monteleone to audition MQA, via high end Meridian kit. The demonstration was shattering. Had CD sounded like this initially, it would have been a different world; which is unfortunate. MQA is, unambiguously to these ears, which have lived the high end since about 1970, seminal. But my sense is that it's not happening the way I imagined it would - apart from streaming; for lots of complex reasons. Here's, though, to close, a brain teaser, pretty much only for folks from the New Orleans area. One needs to enter the way back machine to play. Around, I think, 1970, a high end dealer man named Paul opened up, with Servo Statik's and SAE, etc., off of Carrollton, a store that I think was called something Concepts. He ended up, eventually, in Metairie, in a shopping center on 17th, with Transcriptor TT's and much else. I cannot recall the last name. Or the full name of the retail operation. Is this ringing a bell with anyone? One would have to be of a certain age to play this game. At the time, the only other thing really, was the McIntosh operation, McIntosh the way it used to be, like going to church McIntosh, sexy lighting, ruinously expensive, on Washington Ave. And here's another brain teaser. When Don Turnipseed began, it was actually I believe initially on Bonnabel with a used Mc operation -- I bought several things from him, which ended up in the master bedroom, with very small Thiel's, sounding wonderful & looking so sexy, with all those pretty lights. Savagely murdered by Katrina. So sad. Along with everything else, like Avalon Radians, for starters.
