Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers?

I’ve been watching audio related YouTube reviewers for the last 6 years. Honestly it was Paul McGowan that I started watching and over the years, I’ve subscribed to all on the above list and even personally (and virtually) got to know some of them.

Then I took a crack at creating content on YouTube 4 years ago. I am not a reviewer and clearly state it on my channel. I don’t believe in all the flowery Harry Pearson Audio Adjectives. But I have my very crude & lude way of scaling equipment on how it sounds, and my excitement of either owning, or being loaned certain gear.

Ron Brenay was a big help to me and more importantly Randy. While I don’t agree with 90% of his YT content or Steve Guttenburg for that matter. I still watch both like a crack addict waiting for my weekly/daily fix.

My channel is small but the others on the list work hard at maintaining content and even making a living. I think they should be paid to do reviews IMHO. It’s a lot of work and getting greased to do it is a good thing provided they aren’t being positive about some or all aspects of the gear they review.

I’ve had one pair of Speakers that cost $6k that I had a hard time dialing in without adding some miniDSP to fix room interactions between the Speakers and my room (both to blame actually).

I had a Tube Integrated that wasn’t up to snuff and actually had some IP issues so I killed that review.

As much of an Orchard Audio fanboy that I am. I blew up 2 pairs of the little StarKrimson’s that came out 4 years ago. I was not a happy camper and mentioned it in one of my Video’s. Then the Ultra came out, everything wrong about the previous Amp was fixed plus double output and Tons of protection. I was pissed but then I bought 5 Ultra modules and powered them with Toroidal + beefy filter caps. Old School meets New School.

I’m a PS Audio Fanboy and that’s purely Paul McGowan’s fault. Andrew is #1 for a reason and I like Kristie & his style of reviewing.

YouTube & Social Media in general is how one sells equipment nowadays with in home trials and online sales. There are good brick & morter stores around but everything I’ve bought is gently used because I couldn't  afford these items bought at a Dealer or online.

I still subscribe to Stereophool , Sound & Vision, & The Absolute Sound. delivered to my Zinio account. I miss Audio Magazine, Stereo Review, Sound & Vision (Canada), Audio Ideas Guide, & UHF. I subscribe to HiPig, Darko’s mag., SECRETS of Home Theater and High Fidelity, & Soundstage Network.

If you look at a lot of youtube reviewers, you quickly find out who knows what they are talking about and whether they offer any worthwhile advice.

Here is what I think -
Ignore anything by Amir of ASR because he is biased, and basically promotes his own views to promote his site and satisfy his minions rather than to provide sensible advice.
The following are worth listening to in my opinion, however there are others:
Streaky
Hans Beekhuyzen
Darko
Steve Huff
Andrew Robinson.
Pursuit of Perfect sound
A number of German reviewers, who really are excellent, but you need to speak German
 

It's a cesspool of people pretending they know what they're doing. You really can't trust anybody. There is no such thing as an independent review.

I have watched few utubers. I found it somewhat unproductive relative to the time dedicated to it. But I can understand why it's attractive to some and for them I would suggest that they not abandon 'critical analysis' when watching. I think that like the magazines, much of what they convey which might be negative is opaque. What I missed most was a lack of meaningful context.  

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