Boys Toys Day II - July 22nd With dCS, Wilson Audio, Absolute Sounds & Lotus Silverstone!

[Vipers]

Hi All,

Well after the success of our first Boys Toys Day a couple of years ago, in collaboration with PMC Speakers, where we put my 2 passions and many of our customers passions of Cars and HiFi into one day, well it now time for Boys Toys Day II :-)

The first BTD was so much fun and I always wanted to do another one but was always a little nervous as that was the perfect day, we had a brilliant turnout, everyone had a great time and the weather was really good to us + the system PMC put together sounded epic, how could we possibly compete with that, well I think we may have just done it as we have something very special lined up for this years event, how does the chance of listening to a £300,000 system sound?

As part of our expansion we recently became dealers for dCS and Wilson Audio and what with dCS only being up the road and recently having just finished their new state of the art demo room it seemed like a match made in heaven and the seeds were sown for Boys Toys Day II who dCS and Absolute Sounds (The UK dCS and Wilson Audio Distributor among other highend brands) were really keen to support, so a big thanks to those guys.

So for those who missed the first event, what does the day entail? basically it is a chance to get your car out for a drive and hear one of the finest audio systems in the world, the idea is that if you have a sports car or any car of interest then please come along to HiFi Lounge from 9am where we will have the BBQ running for breakfast bacon and sausage rolls and will have a mini car meet then around 11am we will head up to dCS in Cambridgeshire for an afternoon listening to a very special HiFi System + factory tour.

dCS Vivaldi System

I will announce more details over the next weeks but this is really a headsup so that you put July 22nd in your calendar and even if you haven’t got an interesting car you are more than welcome to come along, especially if you are interested in hearing the HiFi System that will consist of a full dCS Vivaldi stack, Wilson Alexx Speakers driven by Dan D'Agostino amps and a full Transparent wiring Loom, this really is an amazing opportunity and is a system I really can’t wait to hear myself :-)

Lotus Cars are my other passion and we had a great turn out of Lotus's through the generations for the last event so it will be great to repeat this again, Lotus Silverstone, my very friendly Lotus dealer :-) who will be on hand to chat and answer any questions you may have, I have actually just bought an iconic Lotus from the 80’s that I should be receiving next week so as long as the old Lotus acronym doesn’t come true then I look forward to bringing that on the day.

So all we need now is the weather to be on our side and we will have a great day, the only thing I ask is that if you think you can make it along could you please mail me at paul@hifilounge.co.uk so know how many people we can expect and the car you will be bringing, if any, and in particular if you want to listen to the HiFi System as the dCS demo room is optimised to give the best audio reproduction but can only fit a few people in at a time so we need a good idea of numbers here so please mail me with the 3 below answers -

1, Are you planning on attending?

2, What car are you brining, if any?

3, Do You Want to Listen to a £300,000 HiFi System?

More details to follow as I have them, please find links below to the everyone who is supporting the event.

http://hifilounge.co.uk/dcs

http://hifilounge.co.uk/wilson-audio

http://www.absolutesounds.com/

http://www.lotussilverstone.co.uk/

Please find a few picture below from the last Boys Toys Day + some of the epic HiFi we will be demonstrating.

Collage of cars from the First event.

dCS Vivaldi Stack, The Worlds Best Digital Front End.

Wilson Alexx Speakers, Quite Amazing!

Dan D'Agostino Power Amplification, Beautiful.

Many thanks and looking forward to seeing you on July 22nd.

Paul.

I just thought I'd paste the link below for the last event as there are more pictures there, hope we can get another great Lotus turnout :-)

 

[Vipers]

Just had this little beauty delivered in readiness for our event, had a great response so far, should have a great turnout of Lotus's as well as other cars :-)

Cheers,

Paul.

 

[Vipers]

dCS Sneak Peak Ahead of  BTD II This Saturday!

Hi All,

I went over the dCS yesterday to run through everything ahead of our Boys Toys Day II event this Saturday and to make sure there is plenty of parking, which there really is, so that is great news. I also had a look round, I really think everyone will enjoy the dCS part of the day, firstly there will be a factory tour to see how dCS make their world glass products, then you will be taken into their new demo room, to be fair this is where I spent the most time yesterday, it really is excellent, if I had the money I think this would be the system I would buy :-) Here you will hear around 4 tracks that will really show of this system, once everyone has had a listen if anyone wants an extended listen please let us know and we can arrange that.

Outside there will be food on hand and also the Gin tasting, careful here though as we can’t get too carried away with the Gin, although maybe we could sleep in the demo room if it starts flowing too well :-)

We will head of to dCS around 11.30am from HiFi Lounge, it is around a 30 minute drive away, but before then we will have the new Naim room running with the Wilson Audio Sabrina’s and in our Highend Room we will be running dCS Rossini into Audio Research Reference Pre/Power then Wilson Audio Yvette’s so almost an appetiser for the main event at dCS, but please make sure you go in for a listen before we head off to dCS, Pedro from Absolute Sounds will be on hand with any questions you may have.

Anyway, more importantly I still haven’t got the Esprit back from the garage, nothing like cutting it fine.

Here are a few teaser shots of dCS’s excellent demo room.

Roll on Saturday :-)

Cheers,

Paul.

[Bibs]

Brilliant day out, HiFi Lounge did themselves proud. Thanks for organising Paul and your hospitality mate :) 

[Vipers]

Great to see you yesterday Bibs, thanks for coming and thanks for sharing the pics, hope you've dried out now, the interior in the Elan is absolutely drenched but really we were pretty lucky with the weather.

[ChrisJ]

Thanks for the day Paul, sorry I couldn't get along to the afternoon. I did briefly meet up with the other Esprit owner as you were all leaving.

We'll have to get the cars together once your reverse gear is sorted out - I'm only 1/2 down the road.

 

[Bibs]

Drive home was a hoot on R888R's with wet shorts! 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gJ0QiLRtatctDjMK2

[Chillidoggy]

Nice vid!

You're gonna need a licence and training for that drone soon, though!

[Bibs]

I'm doing my 'Permission for Commercial Operations' licence soon mate, but I do agree that they should be regulated, there will be a shit storm when one actually hurts someone/thing properly.

I like filming boats by the way

[Chillidoggy]

14 minutes ago, Bibs said:

I'm doing my 'Permission for Commercial Operations' licence soon mate, but I do agree that they should be regulated, there will be a shit storm when one actually hurts someone/thing properly.

I like filming boats by the way

 

I noticed you seem to have a penchant for sailors boats.

New boat arriving next year, matey. Invitation a given.

[maydharm]

3 hours ago, ian29gte said:

I noticed you seem to have a penchant for sailors boats.

New boat arriving next year, matey. Invitation a given

So Ian, enlighten us what new boat have you gone for, I've chartered "Song and Dance" out of Chatham dockside a few times, she's a lovely Rodman 44' 

[Chillidoggy]

I've gone with a smaller version than the previous model this time around - 

[Vipers]

23 hours ago, ChrisJ said:

Thanks for the day Paul, sorry I couldn't get along to the afternoon. I did briefly meet up with the other Esprit owner as you were all leaving.

We'll have to get the cars together once your reverse gear is sorted out - I'm only 1/2 down the road.

 

No problem at all Chris and thanks for the tips on Esprit ownership, once I actually get her on the road I am sure they will be invaluable, especially adding the extinguisher, also be good to get you to have a quick look over her to see if you think I've bought a good one, or maybe I don't want to know.

20 hours ago, Bibs said:

Drive home was a hoot on R888R's with wet shorts! 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/gJ0QiLRtatctDjMK2

Ah Bibs, I feel for you mate, that looked awful, good ol British summertime eh, I had a similar experience today on my first track day, a total washout most of the day, I found out though that a Caterham in the wet is very entertaining :-)

A Big Thanks To Everyone Who Came and Helped Make BTD II So Much Fun!

Hi All,

Both Wendy and myself wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who came along and helped make Boys Toys Day II such a success and a lot of fun, I have to admit I was quite worried during the night before as all I could hear was the rain pounding against the window and I feared a total washout but once the cars started arriving the sun broke through and we were blessed with gorgeous weather for the few hours we were at HiFi Lounge.

We had a fantastic turnout of cars, a great selection of Lotus Cars + Porsche, Aston Martin, Caterham, TVR + many others but the star of the show that definitely the most attention was the McLaren 570S, stunning machine, unfortunately my Esprit didn’t make it, I got it back Friday evening around 5pm and I thought brilliant only to find that although it it now went forward I couldn’t get reverse so decided to not push my luck and decided to leave her at home, hopefully next time.

I’d also like to thank dCS, Absolute Sounds and Lotus Silverstone for supporting this event, I think everyone agrees that the afternoon part of the day at dCS was awesome, all I kept hearing was how amazing the system sounded, I must admit I could have stayed there all night :-) Also thanks to Alnwick Gin for coming along and offering tastings, looks like we have a few Gin drinkers amongst our customers as they seemed to be very popular and also thanks to our friends, Ross, Louise, Ady and Damo for running the BBQ breakfast which seemed to go down very well indeed, amazing how quick 130 sausage and 100 rashes of bacon can disappear :-)

So thanks again everyone, already talking about BTD III for 2019 so watch this space :-)

I must admit I didn’t take many pictures so I have stolen some from a few sources so thanks to Bibs from The Lotus Forums for the drone shots which look awesome, The Speaker Shack and Stephen Crowe, thanks Guys.

Then We headed over to dCS for more fun :-)

A really nice picture of our Naim room with the Wilson Sabrina’s running that was taken on Saturday.

Thanks again,Paul.

[PaulLF1]

Your Esprit Turbo looks stunning!

[Vipers]

Thanks Paul, she's back in the garage next week to sort reverse gear out as refuses to go in at the moment but then hopefully I can enjoy driving it :-)