Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers?

curiousjim

It’s all entertainment, whether it’s reading a magazine, or watching a YouTube video.

That's probably true. I'll just never understand how some could see Hans or Amir or OCD guy as "entertaining."

When you are in awe with your own system , you dont need entertainment, you listen music for the first time in your life , nobody has ever experienced it save me ?

i dont read audio review anymore except sometimes one recommended here , by curiosity, because i love people here and what they recommend , thats all... The last one i really read and study was Dr.Choueri BACCH filters acoustic revolution... There is nothing  else to read for me... All the rest is marketing, honest one , at best ... But i dont need to upgrade ...Then ... I read my friends here and i listen music...

I’ve been watching audio related YouTube reviewers for the last 6 years. Honestly it was Paul McGowan that I started watching and over the years, I’ve subscribed to all on the above list and even personally (and virtually) got to know some of them.

Then I took a crack at creating content on YouTube 4 years ago. I am not a reviewer and clearly state it on my channel. I don’t believe in all the flowery Harry Pearson Audio Adjectives. But I have my very crude & lude way of scaling equipment on how it sounds, and my excitement of either owning, or being loaned certain gear.

Ron Brenay was a big help to me and more importantly Randy. While I don’t agree with 90% of his YT content or Steve Guttenburg for that matter. I still watch both like a crack addict waiting for my weekly/daily fix.

My channel is small but the others on the list work hard at maintaining content and even making a living. I think they should be paid to do reviews IMHO. It’s a lot of work and getting greased to do it is a good thing provided they aren’t being positive about some or all aspects of the gear they review.

I’ve had one pair of Speakers that cost $6k that I had a hard time dialing in without adding some miniDSP to fix room interactions between the Speakers and my room (both to blame actually).

I had a Tube Integrated that wasn’t up to snuff and actually had some IP issues so I killed that review.

As much of an Orchard Audio fanboy that I am. I blew up 2 pairs of the little StarKrimson’s that came out 4 years ago. I was not a happy camper and mentioned it in one of my Video’s. Then the Ultra came out, everything wrong about the previous Amp was fixed plus double output and Tons of protection. I was pissed but then I bought 5 Ultra modules and powered them with Toroidal + beefy filter caps. Old School meets New School.

I’m a PS Audio Fanboy and that’s purely Paul McGowan’s fault. Andrew is #1 for a reason and I like Kristie & his style of reviewing.

YouTube & Social Media in general is how one sells equipment nowadays with in home trials and online sales. There are good brick & morter stores around but everything I’ve bought is gently used because I couldn't  afford these items bought at a Dealer or online.

I still subscribe to Stereophool , Sound & Vision, & The Absolute Sound. delivered to my Zinio account. I miss Audio Magazine, Stereo Review, Sound & Vision (Canada), Audio Ideas Guide, & UHF. I subscribe to HiPig, Darko’s mag., SECRETS of Home Theater and High Fidelity, & Soundstage Network.

If you look at a lot of youtube reviewers, you quickly find out who knows what they are talking about and whether they offer any worthwhile advice.

Here is what I think -
Ignore anything by Amir of ASR because he is biased, and basically promotes his own views to promote his site and satisfy his minions rather than to provide sensible advice.
The following are worth listening to in my opinion, however there are others:
Streaky
Hans Beekhuyzen
Darko
Steve Huff
Andrew Robinson.
Pursuit of Perfect sound
A number of German reviewers, who really are excellent, but you need to speak German
 

It's a cesspool of people pretending they know what they're doing. You really can't trust anybody. There is no such thing as an independent review.