My Goodness!

I am fully aware of what Youtube compression does to sound demos. One has to be comparative. I was just extrapolating that if the Audio Note system could sound that good relative to other Youtube fare, then it was probably a very good system. That does not pretend to be a thorough review.

It's more like praising with faint praise.

Of course, the elephant in the room here, literally, is that ear to ear encounters with systems at trade shows can be equally fuzzy as can be demos in dealer store rooms. It’s a wild and rocky world out there. Somehow, we manage to figure it all out because we are crafty and enterprising beasts who are often forced to rely on our wits.

@pindac 

"I am comfortable with the claim I have heard the AN Youtube Demo' bettered with equipment costing a fraction of their prices."

So then you are avowing that systems can be auditioned successfully via Youtube?

@tablejocky

There you go.

@tablejocky

There you go.

@carlsbad2 

"So you think you can listen to a youtube recording of a random system on your system and know what the random system sounds like?"

I should have been clearer. Wasn't listening through my stereo system. Was listening through very mid-fi speakers under the Samsung Big Screen. I have listened to many a Youtube through that setup, so I have some sense of how that plays Youtube sound. When something sounds a cut above it makes me sit up and take notice, but not enough to buy something sight unseen. Could never afford the AN system anyway.

Part of what I always find funny about the AN rooms is that they don't pay a lot of attention to the "room" acoustic - the tacit implication being that the system rises above all that. Rather cheeky and confident.

There is more going on here than just "speakers." Would agree with many though that AN speakers are way overpriced for what they are.

Audio Excellence Canada Review

"Audio Excellence" in Toronto always has colorful things to say about Audio Note though, of course, they are selling them. Still, listening to reviews of Audio Note is like listening to reviews of an angel. There are apparently things going on that escape vocabulary, or that is the pretense anyway.