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

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.

I have watched few utubers. I found it somewhat unproductive relative to the time dedicated to it. But I can understand why it's attractive to some and for them I would suggest that they not abandon 'critical analysis' when watching. I think that like the magazines, much of what they convey which might be negative is opaque. What I missed most was a lack of meaningful context.  

All reviewers focus on the gear pieces...

To create audiophile experience we must learn basic acoustic...

Not buying acoustic panels, i means really experimenting...

There is no other way...

I don't know about 'focusing' on gear prices, but I always hope the reviewer says how much something costs, because many of them do not. I wonder why people who complain about reviewers so much don't start their own YouTube channel? Show 'em how it's done!