Bear in mind these guys all have a little bit different audience. The vast majority range in terms of knowledge and experience from utter noobs to advanced novice or maybe intermediate level. Even the ones who do know a lot, that is their audience, beginners.
The part about sound, the value of listening to a system on YT, in other words a laptop, I find a lot more value in that than anything any of these guys has to say.
You just need to learn how to listen, and evaluate what you’re hearing. This gets more complicated when recording the sound of a system in a room, because on top of all the usual problems of having all the same equipment we have the additional challenge of microphone placement that all by itself can swamp everything else. Still, even with all that, there’s things we can hear that can make it worthwhile.
Just to give you some idea what I mean, I’ve now bought three different components that were at least partially based on listening to them on YT. That’s right. I did all the research the usual way, and then also listened to them. Lo and behold, when I got them home they ALL sounded EXACTLY as I had come to expect from hearing them on my laptop. My freaking laptop!
The first was a Koetsu Black Goldline. That’s right. There’s a YT channel where all the guy does is spin a record. Not one word. You just know the cartridge, arm, turntable, and phono stage. You hear the feed from the phono stage. There’s a couple different Koetsu carts, a couple different tables, usually the same Herron phono stage, but never the same record. Normal audiophile would say has to be all the same stuff, certainly all the same record, too many changes, totally invalid. I had no problem evaluating what was what. Even used this same channel to buy the next component, the Herron VTPH2A.
The third one, Tekton Moab speakers. Besides the Moabs I "listened to" Ulfberhts on YT.
Hard to explain what to listen for. All I can say, the information is there. It is of value. You just need to learn how to evaluate it.
Here you go- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXtS7hApoSE Hit Show More for the component list. Listen to a few of these. See if you can spot the similarities between the ones with the same cart and phono stage.
The part about sound, the value of listening to a system on YT, in other words a laptop, I find a lot more value in that than anything any of these guys has to say.
You just need to learn how to listen, and evaluate what you’re hearing. This gets more complicated when recording the sound of a system in a room, because on top of all the usual problems of having all the same equipment we have the additional challenge of microphone placement that all by itself can swamp everything else. Still, even with all that, there’s things we can hear that can make it worthwhile.
Just to give you some idea what I mean, I’ve now bought three different components that were at least partially based on listening to them on YT. That’s right. I did all the research the usual way, and then also listened to them. Lo and behold, when I got them home they ALL sounded EXACTLY as I had come to expect from hearing them on my laptop. My freaking laptop!
The first was a Koetsu Black Goldline. That’s right. There’s a YT channel where all the guy does is spin a record. Not one word. You just know the cartridge, arm, turntable, and phono stage. You hear the feed from the phono stage. There’s a couple different Koetsu carts, a couple different tables, usually the same Herron phono stage, but never the same record. Normal audiophile would say has to be all the same stuff, certainly all the same record, too many changes, totally invalid. I had no problem evaluating what was what. Even used this same channel to buy the next component, the Herron VTPH2A.
The third one, Tekton Moab speakers. Besides the Moabs I "listened to" Ulfberhts on YT.
Hard to explain what to listen for. All I can say, the information is there. It is of value. You just need to learn how to evaluate it.
Here you go- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXtS7hApoSE Hit Show More for the component list. Listen to a few of these. See if you can spot the similarities between the ones with the same cart and phono stage.