Can you tell the difference between a $200 and a $200,000 guitar?

This always kills me: 

Trying to discern audio quality or lack thereof …. Over a YouTube clip on an iPhone. 

This always kills me:

Listeners who because they can’t hear nuances that others can, or are so predisposed to believing it is not possible to do so that they then assume it must all be bs.  They then feel the need to rain on the parade. Talk about being a party pooper! 😊

@frogman Agreed. I cannot fathom how some folks cannot compensate for YouTube etc. The musical differences rendered therein are patently obvious.

The brain is weird. I was talking to friends and learned that some do not see images when reading a book-merely receiving the information as verbal data and understanding. Can you imagine reading a good book and not being there?

Some also admitted to never having seen images in dreams. Huh?! It blew my mind a little!

Yes, of course the guitarist is more important than the the guitar.

Thanks for the tautology people.

It is a no brainer that a brilliant classical guitarist would be much better to listen to on the $200 guitar, than a hack would be on the $20,000 guitar. Duh...

But that is kind of a non-sequitur, isn’t it. And it’s missing the point of the entire exercise.

@frogman

Listeners who because they can’t hear nuances that others can, or are so predisposed to believing it is not possible to do so that they then assume it must all be bs.

@noromance

Agreed. I cannot fathom how some folks cannot compensate for YouTube etc. The musical differences rendered therein are patently obvious.

So true.

I have no problems watching YT videos, and discerning the sound of systems that are of very high quality.

It’s not as if YT makes $200K systems sound the same as a $2K system. I can still listen "around" the limitations of YT, and hear enough of a systems attributes to get a pretty good idea I am listening to a good or great system.