How competitive are you with your system?

OK, here’s a thought for all those people who complain about the YT quality due to their compression and what not.

Make a good video of your system and download it so that you can play it back as is.

Then send it off to YT.

Put both on your system and using near-field monitoring, listen back and forth and describe any differences you hear, and how bad is it..., really.

If there are no pics/sound..., it didn't happen:

This is the spectrum for the Heil without the reflector in place.

Here we add the reflector with the 1MM spacer.  Knowing that the woofer has a very steep slope at ~3,500 Hz, what would you rather listen too?

Now we change out the 1MM spacers to 0.6MM.  The problem with working with media this thin, you don't get a smooth edge.  But, note how the frequency balance has shifted down just a hair.  The real gains occur when you get <0.2MM, but this looks pretty darn good to me.

So, what kind of $$$ are we talking for such a shift, which is probably more than you would get from swapping cables?  Maybe a couple cents.

Some old friends dropped by to play.  You really hear the "noise" of the digital transfer on this CD.  I should have engaged the "tube simulator".

As always, this is on an Oppo-95 through a Yamaha RX-Z9 RECEIVER in "Pure Direct" mode and no eq or room correction, either electronic of physical is being used.  No special wires are used and the speaker wire is 14 gauge "speaker wire."  I did rewire the entire house/system to a 20 amp breaker with 8 gauge wire and no splices at all.  

The room is ~5,000 cu ft.

https://youtu.be/GFTrqUAvVLw

https://youtu.be/v7em409KZWQ