I would guess that for many of these folks, YouTube videos are not their sole source of income....
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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Like many here I enjoy Paul McGowan, Darko, Thomas & Stereo (despite the Chifi hype). Here's one that pisses most people here off: OCDHiFiGuy He's more than irritating and may be bipolar but he has said some really profound things that turned out to be true. His bashing the ARC Ref 750 hit a nerve! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-ry-DFdeo I have learned a LOT form OCD Mikey. Ditto Paul McGowan |
“It seems most people will never get that audio is not about the gear pieces but about how to learn to listen...”. IMO, if you know how to listen, you would know that the better equipment makes a bigger difference in sound quality! It’s like taking a Honda accord to the racetrack. Even if you are the best driver in the world, you will not beat a rookie in a F1 car. If you have a pioneer receiver, I don’t care how you listen, the sound quality will be crap. If you truly know how to listen, you will hear differences in cables, room treatment, different price ranges of amps, dacs, preamps, etc… But hey, if you can’t hear the difference between entry level equipment and the better higher end equipment, that’s cool, you just saved yourself some money. Me, I’ll spend the money on better equipment to get the best sq I can for the money invested, same goes for cars, homes, appliances, we’ll just everything
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Caveat emptor, let the buyer be ware. One guy I saw is partnering with manufacturers. No bias here folks, move along. It runs the gambit. Some have decades of experience, Guttenberg for instance, but he likes just about everything. Vandersteen 2's are dull/warm as hell, he loves em, Zu speakers are super detailed from what I hear, he loves them. Him loving anything tells me very little. My opinion, if you don't know my prejudices, is completely worthless to you. I Holtz and Cordsman(sp?) were the only 2 reviewers I used to pay attention to. Others may be even better, but how do I know that? It's a crap shoot. Heck, even if you and X agree on everything, whose to say that X won't change what he is looking for? Did he move from a castle to a former funeral home with heavily passed floors? Or got into economic trouble and started taking bribes? Sorry, I wish it wasn't so. |
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