Anybody watch Steve Huff audio on the Tube?

@jjss49 Fixed it.

This very thread is part of what’s wrong in the world.

This very comment about this very thread is part of what's wrong in the world.

Yes, it's indicative of the industry and influencing others to chase the next best  thing.

At least Steve is not...air quotes "manufacturing" a re-badged Doge Integrated and selling it like it's something new to the world while still maintaining illusions as a "YouTube reviewer". That's another level of blurring the line where any future pre-, power, or integrated amp review from this person will be worthless.Way to undercut your day gig.
 

Anytime somebody accuses one of these people of 'payola' or some such, I just say 'prove it'.

I've got a lot more reason to believe somebody who is putting it out there on his YouTube channel than 'some guy on the internet' spouting off anonymously on a forum. 

Anytime somebody accuses one of these people of ’payola’ or some such, I just say ’prove it’.

I’ve got a lot more reason to believe somebody who is putting it out there on his YouTube channel than ’some guy on the internet’ spouting off anonymously on a forum.

hardly interested in proving it... you believe what you want...

folks who don’t care to understand the eco-system of how online and print reviewers get gear, keep gear, get requests from manufacturers, allow manufacturers to comment/edit their drafts, get co-opted... purely accidental correlation between rated stereophile components, reviews published, ads run... then some makers then don’t advertise for a while, their formerly recommended item gets dropped as it has been ’too long since reviewed’ ... how rave review quotes magically show up in ads run in subsequent issues ... all happily odd coincidences and circumstances, right? 👍

not even touching on you-tube economics, click bait incentives... of course, this vid is about the next big thing, best ever... wow!!! lookee here! 🙄

well, ’head in sand’ life can be good... sometimes...

this isn’t to say that what reviewers write can’t be trusted... crooked refs in sports make good calls too, but one needs to understand how they are benefitting, and how the strike zone is being skewed or embellished by ’fringe benefits’ - see tim donaghy nba...

I bought the Diamond 225 small bookshelf speakers because of his review. They sounded really good just like he said for the price. I now want to hear what Wharfdale has in a bigger box with that tweeter and midrange. It was so smooth, delicate and harmonic. I was using an old cambridge amplifier no tubes and it sounded great. Steve got me watching him. I am no into the new Polk R700 tower speakers. They are a big deal for the price. Another reviewer and another has reviewed them. Fun to watch all this research going on and I do not have to go to an audio show which I also can not afford. I like how positive and passionate Steve is, it works!