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Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers?

I’d like to recognize that it takes a great set of self promotional skills to become successful in the Youtube world. That said most of the audio reviewers I’ve seen don’t have the experience to review, or the kind of space that would really allow gear to shine.

Most of them start of with K-Mart like gear, did their formula and got popular, and jumped far up the audio food chain. Of course everything they review is going to be great compared to the Service Merchandise system they sold last year.

Just throwing it out there that people should be careful listening to these guys that are mostly working for the views/money (not that some aren’t passionate).

Anyone else seeing this?

bjesien
roxy54's avatar
roxy54
7,692 posts
 

Of course. Even the ones with likeable engaging personalities have vested interests in pleasing the companies who make the gear that they are loaned so that they will continue to have a steady flow of gear and followers.

That said, it's entertaining, and you can read between the lines to get some idea of what the piece is like as well as some close-up views of the piece.

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larsman
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If they give bad products great reviews, they will soon lose many of those views/much of that money as people catch on. I watch a number of them, and maybe I'm naive, but I don't regard any of them as being shills or having started reviewing at K-Mart type of places. Perhaps we watch different reviewers. Hi-Fi magazines, on the other hand..... 

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mapman
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion.  Some will be more popular than others.

 

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