Some youtubers do give useful technical information. You just need to listen to them selectively. Audiophiles are not blind. If the youtuber raves something that is not really up to expectation and misleads people to make wrong buying decision, the user feedback will show. I always take their reviews with a grain of salt, cross check them with others and couple with the demo listening (good quality one) to verify their statement. So far, I have been lucky. Except two entry-level DACs that I need to resell to upgrade to higher end products, all the purchases based on the on-line reviews and Stereophile are pretty satisfactory. Trust me, their reviews / recommendations, if quality ones, are much more informative and reliable than a few sentences' write-up from forumers.
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?
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