I wish some of these posters would practice what they preach!
As for using YT for evaluating an audio component (listening), what a joke. You really can't go to a dealer and listen to a set of speakers and think they will sound like that in your home, in your room, with your components. Same goes for an amp/dac/preamp, you need to evaluate these components using your system to see how the synergy is between the components.
This is like test driving a car from a YT video. Impossible!
YT as well as on the web, you can read reviews and check out how people are using the product you are evaluating/looking at, but even then, you don't know how smart the guy is that is presenting.
As for using YT for evaluating an audio component (listening), what a joke. You really can't go to a dealer and listen to a set of speakers and think they will sound like that in your home, in your room, with your components. Same goes for an amp/dac/preamp, you need to evaluate these components using your system to see how the synergy is between the components.
This is like test driving a car from a YT video. Impossible!
YT as well as on the web, you can read reviews and check out how people are using the product you are evaluating/looking at, but even then, you don't know how smart the guy is that is presenting.