Intriguing Speakers From Germany

trying to evaluate a speaker by listening to a You Tube video is like trying to date a woman through a plate glass window, there are just too many of the five senses not involved in the process

Sorry, but I record concerts.  Anyone who thinks microphones are accurate is smoking crack. Even Schoeps CMC-MK4 into a Sonosax preamp by someone who knows what they are doing in setting record levels and gain offer only an approximation of reality and that is recording uncompressed audio at 24-bit/48KHz. 

There are simply far too many uncontrolled or unknown variables in a YouTube video of a speaker playing to make any value judgments beyond knowing that the box is making some sort of noise. 

While entertaining, buying a speaker based on a YouTube video sound clip is like buying a mail order bride from Russia based on seeing her in a Zoom Meeting call. 

Binaural head and torso simulator and then listening with headphones is the closest you will get to being there. It's not perfect but more perfect in terms of capturing what would be heard than anything else. 

@moonwatcher  : +10 and well put.  The Bored Panda version...

... @markmendenhall has the visuals down.... ;)

Waay too many variables 'twixt A>Z, but at least we recognise the same song. *G*