Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers?

Honestly, it's 99.9% crap but in that 0.1% you find the gems or at least someone with the same tastes as you.  Just today I ran across a video of restoring a not particularly audiophile product but when he took the cover off, I thought, you know, a not bad slim amplifier, and went through his procedures to bring it up to speed in a smart, concise way.  I enjoyed it immensely.

In an earlier  posting above, a person stated that there never is a negative review in Audiophile magazines.  Not true.  Example: In Stereophle Magzine (4/5/92), Corey Greenberge gave the "Scientific Fidelity Tesla Speaker" a negative review.  Scientic Fidelity never recovered and went out of buisness.

Reviewers sell...

Their usefulness is delivering official specs, appearence and details about the products...

Their opinion generally have no value...Those honest dont accept to write about a product they dont like... And they speak about all products they dont dislike in a neutral way generally...

Imagine one of them  writing  a review about a product of a young company and imagine he  destruct it in his review.... What could be the consequences ? This does not happen often and there is a reason why : responsability...

The opposite is possible  and way more frequent  , the worst product i ever listened to was a product i bought 10 years ago after reading a positive review of this horrible headphone  amplifier...

What could i write if i was a reviewer ? Nothing i would have never write anything about this junk...

Imagine the responsability if i do write a destructive review corresponding to my impression ... I will never wrote the review but i bought this product because a reviewer wrote very positively about it... My friend bought it too... We sold it on the spot after few minute listenings and laughing about our credulity in reading reviews ... 😊

Experienced owners reviews matter way more ....They had skin in the game... They paid the product and dont borrow it to sell it with their words...

All relatively low cost  products i bought after pro reviewers opinions were an error i regretted...

All products i bought after inquiring their many owners opinions on the net  or informal reviews i never regretted...I statiscally compared them to make my mind... I bought my best components this way... No regrets ever... Only pure joy ...

Wow, K-Mart and Service Merchandise. That's a trip down memory lane.  Remember Green Stamps?

what i can say is i will never trust a you tube reviewer i will go to a dealer or trade show at least before i buy a speaker again 

these kind of purchases are highly subjective so when Ron at new record day recommended a open baffle loudspeaker i decided to give them a chance  luckily they had a return policy at my expense i might add the speakers  were so bad i couldn't believe it anyhow i learned a valuable lesson after that