Send in the Clowns

Subjective listening descriptions are critical, but most people offer them without a lot of relevant details (room acoustics, associated equipment, source quality, etc.). Including those variables makes it possible for others to gauge whether a reported quality might be something they’d also experience. When they are not included, the reports are only reliable as the expression of someone’s feelings masquerading as an objective report.

In other words, measurements on their own may be highly problematic as a guide to the sound, but the solution isn’t just subjective listening reports -- those too can be worthless without some kind of report about other factors.

The clowns will keep making the content when there are so many clowns applauding it and clicking the like button. As the comments state above, they feed each other with it. 

Similarly, a few days ago I mistakingly noticed and partially watched a youtube video titled "9000 dollar speaker cable against 14 dollar speaker cable". I was curious. Not surprisingly after watching about 30 seconds of it I could see the conclusion was there was going to be no difference. Talk about bias. The clown said he would connect one speaker cable into a $10 dollar switch, then from the switch into another set of DIY speaker cables, then into a mono speaker. He said the additional 2 foot piece of cable he made was a quality cable, and therefore should make no difference. What an idiot. 

Of course there were over 900 comments stating the usual "fools and their money" "all cable is the same" comments. Why even bother posting a logical comment to the flat-earthers- they are not only deaf but blind to common sense. 

Yep, like reviewing a performance car without driving it. 

@laoman then why waste your and our time?

@jaybe +1 -- basically the forum’s equivalent of "Old Man Yells at Cloud"