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So many YouTube clips to evaluate sound quality. Why???

There are several audio gear Youtubers chronically playing clips displaying speakers and amplifiers and even cables to have YouTube listeners evaluate sound quality.  And then they go to shows and display music clips from the very small Hotel rooms.  And yes I watch a few and some can be interesting. It's gotta be tough for these manufactures to go to these hotels all the time and deal with all the people. Basically, it's a mixture of all kinds of higher end components and somehow it's possible to appreciate what individual components sound like. $200,000 speakers surrounded by lots of other high-priced gear. How does one charge anything?

Are they trying to fool people with sound comparison music clips? What is the point and why are they wasting their time?  Maybe headphones might detect something.  I fail to appreciate why these individuals do this, and why do they dedicate so much time to this.  Are they being paid to promote speakers and amplifiers?  And then reading the comments where all these people seem to really believe they hear differences.

Time might be better spent explaining technical merits of the gear and opinions on how it sounds. And why their recommended gear is so expensive.  
 

 

emergingsoul
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noromance
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This has been beaten to death over the years. It’s all to do with getting a taste, or a glimpse.

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mahgister
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I dont see it any other way than marketing sellings pitch, with sincere audiophiles really hearing DIFFERENCES if not most of the times , very often... I myself hear differences... 😊

But there is in audio circle a fetichism of the gear to some point which hide deep acoustic ignorance...Variation of sound for the better dont means we are on the right road ... Anyone can buy a costly upgrade which upgrade could be without acoustic knowledge a dead end even if it is an improvement... You cannot replace acoustic by purchasing speakers or a tube amplifier over a S.S. one or a turntable instead of a dac or the reverse...

You can buy a 20,000 bucks amplifier or speakers but you cannot buy acoustic experience and knowledge...You must learn it... i discovered it the hard way...

And the audio vocabulary anyway is meaningless by itself without a more deeper language using concepts based on acoustic and psycho-acoustic experience where subjectivity is put in charge but under control...

I agree with you emergingsoul about the time spend...

Now anyway i am so pleased by my musical and sound experience i came here more for friends and discussion with my grain of salt than for audiophile search for the optimal soundfield... I am already way over the minimal threshold of S.Q. but for sure with a 600 bucks system under the absolute optimal threshold... I cannot claim to beat costly product implemented well in a dedicated room.. But i am pleased so much with what i experince i dont give a damn..

The only things that matter is the way we must learn HOW to listen using acoustic simple basic concepts and listenings experiments to figure out how we will work further to reach the optimal S.Q. /low price ratio POSSIBLE with the specific components we had chosen in the scale...

The rest is neurosis for me...

 

My best to you...

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audioman58
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It’s pretty dumb imo ,I can see someone explaining the speakers attributes 

but trying to do a A to B comparison through a tablet is a waste of time.

just like Synergistic research showing a comparison of a $600 master fuse AB vs a 

purple fuse , pure waste of time , they just ramp up the DB level a bit vs the other model and it stands out , not worth even doing .

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