Any Advice for those Listening to Youtube Reviewers?

You get it completely in reverse...

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we must LEARN how to listen.... Nobody is born with it ... Ask to an acoustician and to a musician..

Then when we had learned how to listen and we perceive acoustic aspects of the sound experience , then , only then , are we able to make the most of a receiver or of an high end costly piece...

Anybody can hear didfferences, what we must learn is how to make this perceived differences meaningful and useful in the embeddings process of an audio system..

And how do you know a component sound better ? is it because of his price tag or is it because you are trained well enough to embed it in the right electrical,mechanical and acoustical conditions ?

I call that learning how to listen... It does not matter if you use a Pioneer receiver or the Ferrari of amplifier instead , you will be able to get the best of what you have and never be frustrated ... Thats was my point and you dont figured it out... 😊

Money dont create audiophile experience, acoustic may do it and did...learn it to know what the audiophile vocabulary means at least... And acoustic is not buying bass traps or ready made panels by the way...It is a bit more... 😁

“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

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?