Takedown of pricey servers, streamers OCD HiFi guy

@hide45
"Ok, well I feel quite satisfied that OCD is not worth taking very seriously."

He claims to "make $ on cables and the rest is for fun" to "demo to help others" who cannot. He tries stuff and records with an iPhone. Lots of high $ gear around and no good mics or audio/video recording tools for his Youtube videos, yet. Pushes some brands and gets fixated on "looks" as much as sound. Calls himself "OCD", openly. What he likes, good for him. I enjoy how he takes close-up video of some gear just to see it.  

I put it in the "hobby" category like many of us here. It’s okay to have fun too and not take ourselves or these hobbyist videos too seriously. It can be fun to watch people with passion for their hobby, or skip on.

I personally have the sonore signature rendu, melco streamer, and the pink faun 2.16x and I can tell you streamers do make a vast difference.  I tricked my brother and had the sonore playing and he l expressed that he was sorry I paid that much fir my pink faun.  And that was just casual listening. 

@hilde45
I don't want to go over old ground or seem to be stirring up controversy for no reason

No matter what you post, Someone will make it controversial. I can't tell you how many times I have posted something innocently, only to be called out on it as if I were trying to be controversial. Reading levels are very poor anymore 

Being an IT professional and audio guy I find this video OK and nothing against Mike. He's right for about 98-99% of this video and kudos to him for calling this out. He's been fair and honest about this audio voodoo with dealers and gear. I've built many machines for Roon/streaming and you don't need a $5k computer to do this right. Now those high end "audio servers" are nice and clean looking for sure but not necessary.