Darko Audio: Let's End the Cost Videos

He has a schtick. It may be an honest schtick, but it's a schtick.

@ericrhodes1 I am not sure who his target audience is. It is probably close to Andrew Robinson’s. He is an entertainer.. Budget-wise I am his target audience, with my limited funds. And yes, as @hilde45 said, he has a schtick. He is likeable, relatable, personable. He is also a giant at 6’7" which makes him vulnerable, the way he handles it...

The weird part is his podcasts. He is good at talking to the camera. He is pretty bad at interacting with people. He talks over them. I guess interviewing is a skill. 

Darko and Andrew Robinson probably attract the highest volume of new blood to audiophilia on YouTube (initial gateway).

You probably need to make such statements constantly with the fresh blood...they all start out very suspicious about spending, in general..

@deep_333 exactly 

I gained respect for Darko when he started doing deep dives on acoustic treatments. That seemed a bit too tied in with a company for my liking, but he was at least getting into actual, critical details of what contributes to the character of audio gear.

Andrew Robinson is a whole another level of (worse) superficiality. His constant dialogue with his wife (who, no offense) rarely has anything informed to say. She represents the "average spouse" or "everyday person" who has "common sense" about what they’re hearing or seeing. But this just makes her opinion uselessly idiosyncratic for audiophile purposes (though perhaps not for relationship purposes). 

Robinson has also ridiculed paying attention to the parts inside products and also has paid virtually no attention to room acoustics. He seems to be hopelessly schizophrenic between appealing to subscribers to Interior Decorator magazine and audio fans.

(My guess is that he and his partner/wife look very closely at YouTube analytics to see what they should do more or less of. They’re out to get clicks (um, I mean $$) and so that’s their thing. Nothing inherently wrong with this as a business; the problem gets enjoined when they are taken as sources of knowledge about audio. Then, we have a kind of mis- or disinformation problem. And that’s raises the ethical antennae.)