no worries @stuartk, and no offense intended -- i wasn’t at all implying you had any vested interest
was just a little needling that i couldn’t resist -- to remind all of us that these youtube talking heads are helping themselves as much as, if not more than, helping ’the viewers’
after all he is just a guy with a pair of ears in a house in the woods, made some inroads getting retailers and minor manufacturers to send him stuff to opine on and publish as cost effective advertising
in our hifi world, not much difference than the kardashians or paris hilton... famous only for, well, being famous, zero credibility otherwise