Jay's "Ugly Truth" video

My audiophile thesis is that when we had the right synergy between components first and second when we had been able to create the rightful embeddings controls of the mechanical and electrical and acoustical workings dimensions, we passed through a minimal quality threshold which for most well chosen components correspond to their optimal working potential together...

When this optimal working embeddings threshold is reached with many possible minimally qualitative components from the markets , we experience "audiophile" S.Q. at some level, most of the times enough to let us forget sounds qualities as lackings but now experiencing them more as enough to make any acoustic counts being felt as it must be felt...

We listen music forgetting audio defects... Each acoustic factor is felt with the others enough to give a real "musical" experience,... The system is now good...

Upgrading is now always possible really without too much tryings and errors but seems now suddenly way more costly...It is now the system that must be upgraded as a whole ,not a mere component as it was the case before as an often false solution and cure for some defective embeddings controls...

Upgrading really my actual system will cost me too much from 700 bucks to at least 10,000...( a new Dac with BACCH filters) ( read me right here my 2 actual dacs work well and perfectly but i spoke about upgrading the WHOLE system not only changing a dac here thanks to BACCH filters and their corresponding designed dac )

I could optimize it too electrically further for 1000 bucks ( battery+ sine convertor) . I would do it perhaps in the future...But i am happy with what i had and too busy now to listen music to think really about these ugrades which would be real improvement but are no more an obsessive thoughts because the system is very satisfying as it is ... ... I perceive sound as a musical wholeness with it...It is this wholeness i could upgrade not a specific acoustic defective factors as such thanks to Synergetic components and thanks to their embeddings controls in the three dimensions ...

I am not proud to own mere plug and play components, i am proud to had been able to learn how to embed them... I am proud more of my own creation than of lucky branded name purchase by themselves.....Creativity cure audio obsession nothing else...

Another perspective.  Go to a live concert of unamplified music.  For me, I want maximum clarity/detail.  Only the 1st row center will do.  98% of the other seats are sorely deficient for what I want in the sonic realm.  You should enjoy the live concert mainly for the music.  Then go back and tweak your audio system for what you want.  You will get more enjoyment from your audio system in your carefully located chair than you will get from 90% of the seats in a live concert.  Then you can get off the audio upgrade endless quest and enjoy your music either live or at home.  I agree with much of what Jay says in this video.

I met Jay at this year’s AXPONA where Thomas and Jay were showcasing their product collaborations. I remember a few things about the interaction. 1) Jay is painfully shy in a crowded situation and Thomas had to prop him up so that he would push the speakers he had collaborate on with CSS Audio (Typhons). 2) Thomas is MUCH taller than I thought he would be!! 😂 . 3) I hope their gear sounds better in a proper setting because it was only Ok for me.

Jay has extensive experience (for a young person) in highend audio gaining from his sales experience at Audio Excellence in Canada. He knows what a highend sound is. They gear he supposedly owns and was supposedly purchased with his own money is modest compared to what is out there and what he was selling at AE! Those saying his gear is over-priced have not followed his channel very long!

EDIT: oops, wrong Jay!! Probably should have watched the vid first!! 😂😬🤦🏽‍♂️

hobbies aren’t usually the best investment

Hobbies are not investments. They are …. hobbies . They are not meant to be for profit (meaning for making money). There are no RoI expected. It’s stuff you like to spend money on to enjoy yourself. Not to make money of it.

On the other hand, working or investing are money producing activities. Not hobbies. Meaning you either put your time or skills to work to make money, or your capital. In other other (did I say “other”) words, either your human or financial capital.

I have not a piece of equipment in 4 years. However, I found some of his discussion enlightening and prompted some self-reflection.