OCD mickey website and negativity.

@invalid

Those are nice comments about the nat amps but have you ever heard them and how do they sound ?.

I’ve only heard them on YouTube

I enjoy his videos when they short and to the point and filled with commentary about audio components all the extra rhetoric is very very annoying.

Brilliant minds work differently than the rest of us I guess. Although being blissfully ignorant with a low IQ like me has its advantages to. 

That’s nice to hear about explaining what’s inside the mystery box. Maybe mikey can do a video on this. I wish more videos about what goes on inside the mystery boxes would be done. Also would be nice to hear explanations about crossover electronics used inside all these noteworthy speakers everybody talks about. Crossover electronics really impact the sound and I hear that lots of speaker manufactures try to save money on what they install because no one focusses on this stuff. 

He seems to ignore a lot of very good gear that's out there and tends to be in a very narrow product line.  I'm not sure what to make of what he offers and it all seems on the lower end price Side.  

Hard to say whether he's trying to make money or just likes doing a YouTube channel. His website really doesn't have very much on it when it comes to used gear. It's kind of a spar website overall so I don't think that's his main goal to promote and improve this website. He doesn't seem to care if you buy from him or someone else so he's definitely a mystery.  Sort of in the camp with this other guy called Jay and I think they're great friends but hard to say.  Doing a YouTube channel is difficult and you don't make money from it so it's very weird.

baits? I haven't been fishing in years and miss it. I do like to eat salmon a lot if I can trust where it's been caught. I need to go back to Washington where salmon still run free and wild

His website recommends nat and Jeff Rowland gear pretty much exclusively in amplifier and pre-amplifier areas. For speakers it's Fisher and Fisher and tad pretty much.   

The nat amplifiers, on the pricey side up to nearly $100,000, contain this very very large tube which is really really cool until you break it.  I've never seen anything quite like this. No idea how it sounds, anyone familiar with this?

Jeff rowland I think has a lot of credibility making solid state amplifiers.

I'm not familiar with the speakers.

Also you can join a tribe I just signing up I don't think there's a fee. When I was really young I was a member of Indian guides I remember it was a lot of fun, maybe this is for grown-ups.

OCD Mikey just released a new video. It’s a digital versus turntable rendition of John barleycorn must die. It’s been around for a really long time. Video takes place in what appears to be a customers home and these types of videos are always cool to see what other people are doing.

It’s a bare bone presentation without much commentary. It’s a record being played on a very expensive turntable versus a streaming of a remastered version of this song. Frankly I hate sometimes when they remaster older songs from the 70s and perk up Instruments and tonal frequencies to embellish things. I’m not sure it does great service to these wonderful classic recordings. Perfect example are the Beatles albums where they have screwed around by doing all the remasterings and most new versions don’t seem very good but there are a couple that seem better but overall it’s kind of annoying. Let’s respect the Beatles for what they did and after all this is what they heard when they did things and this is much preferred versus how someone else wants it to be sounding regardless of all the technological advances in the current age to make things sound better.

I think today’s video from mikey is somewhat positive although it would’ve been good to have some commentary as to what he was hearing but that didn’t happen so kind of disappointing. And maybe a rundown description of the individual system would’ve been of interest. Very impressive to hear him talk about technical aspects of a record being played near the end of the video in the way he rattled off lots of terminology. I learned a few things from the video.

Lots of Mikey’s videos are rambling and go on and on and then you have to be patient to hear the value of the video. It is quite an investment to listen for 20 minutes for purposes of capturing a few morsels of knowledge and his brain is just chalk filled with knowledge. The volume of videos is pretty impressive and lots of time goes into these videos every day and then there’s these Live streams he does almost daily which can be compelling to listen to along with 150 other people which doesn’t seem so bad

. I’m at a loss to understand why these audio oriented YouTube channels produce so much video content when they only get 5000 to 10,000 views which is a really good thing for an audio youTuber but the amount made from these videos is probably less than $50 so I guess it’s more about creating Goodwill with his audience which ultimately leads to sales of product.

@mikepowellaudio 

hi, sorry for misspelling your name in my initial post. They don’t let you edit the title fields on this forum, only the body of the message.

My hands don’t work very well and I have to dictate.

your Nat amplifiers with their very oversized tubes are exceptionally cool and yes Breaking them is a valid concern because they’re so big and likely very fragile. Replacing them is a concern as with any tube in an amplifier. Maybe you’ve done it but it would be nice to know what it is that makes these amplifier so good and why the $95,000 version of this is deserving of $95,000. Clearly this is not in your overpriced concerns that you have when you see other gear that’s extremely expensive.

By far and it’s not disputed, you are vastly more knowledgable and go to the effort of providing, at times, a very graphic credible critique of the inner workings of audio gear. The autopsies you have done are amazing and not done that often. Being provided a View of the inner workings of these mystery boxes we call audio gear is awesome and anyone would love to see more of this. People spending $5 to $30,000 or more for a mystery box deserve to know more about what’s going on. The producers of these products fall far short in doing this.

The Best Buy sale of audio gear via Magnolia is horrifying the way they stuff all the audio gear together in their sales rooms. And yes some of it is of cheaper Quality but still very worthwhile for many people.

Why Mcintosh hurts it’s image by being associated with Best Buy is sadly profit motivated. However, it could be a good thing since it exposes the world to better quality audio gear which is in your interests I would think.

You’re negative comments about McIntosh are very broad-based and yes certain of their products is not as good as some of their other products. You need to provide more details on why you don’t like certain of their products and maybe you do like certain of their products. I don’t like their av processor equipment, and the lack of their producing a standalone line stage tube pre-amplifier without the damn phono stage which has always been a concern. But their tube amplifiers are very good and to criticize this area doesn’t make sense unless you’re willing to explain why. And you clearly have capabilities and technical expertise to offer these insights.

Also B&w speakers, also disappointingly sold by Best Buy, is a speaker that you criticize. You did a video with a BMW 802 D3 a while back. It was in a dealer sales room which had a good amplifier connected to it as I recall, and you took a quick listen and I you recall you saying that it was deserving of more attention. Have you ever given an 800 series B&w speaker a serious listen?

You provide comparative listening on your YouTube channel quite a bit, knowing full well that most people can’t hear a damn bit of difference when they’re listening to this despite how good your microphone is. in These situations I think all viewers would love to hear your comments about what you are hearing?

So watching the new video from Mikey today. It’s about audio note. A very expensive brand from England which I wouldn’t mind owning.

The video starts out with some early hints of mutual likeability between the parties as an early bonding is underway. If only this was captured on video.

By the end of the video it’s full on euphoria as audio note really terms on the charm and I think Mikey is in love. This is a great video as we hear about the beginning of a possible long-term friendship. Two guys bonding over Music Sharing. This is what audio listening is all about. This is why people should expand to more seating in their listening rooms. So sad to see those single chairs in rooms with such expensive audio gear being displayed.

It’s about 20 minutes and a really nice video.

How hard is it for dealers to find manufacturers who will allow them to sell their product ?

If I wanted to become a dealer and start selling audio gear can I just call manufacturers and say hey can I sell your gear to a bunch of customers I have?

And then do I have to whine and dine these manufacturers to convince them how good it would be to do business with me? And then do I have to commit to spending a lot of money to buy the products at wholesale and then they allow me to start selling their products?

This seems pretty easy.

So these videos that I watch are a dance between the dealer and the manufacturer. If I do a good job recommending their product and showcasing it can I then begin to sell their product?

So many currents of activity going on. And then you have to decide whether what you’re hearing is the truth or just people finding ways to promote and sell products.

New video was just released tonight by OCD Mikey - it was an audio note gear listening session titled ‘unleashed’. Interesting.

Video was basically pure sound from beginning to end, a bunch of edgy sounds all mixed together and I guess you’d have to be there too appreciate it, maybe.

Personally I really didn’t like it. And would need to be medicated to enjoy it.

Somehow this is intended to demonstrate that audio note can handle anything. Maybe that’s true. I sure wish these listening sessions had commentary explaining why the hell this system sounds different or better than other systems if that’s even possible and if not possible what the hell are they doing this for. Please tell us about the components, and we did learn that parts of what they sell are handmade somewhere in England as if that’s supposed to be helpful.

Basically these are mystery boxes and no one knows what the heck goes on inside them and maybe they sound a bit different from other systems. I guess if you pay someone lots of money for one of these mystery boxes you can trust everything’s OK. For many people it’s just as easy as passing over the plastic card and it’s all yours.

Why are the nat amplifiers he sells so expensive?? They look really cool. It's $100,000.  I love the really oversized tubes used

So much baiting. How can we trust the positive comments?

I listen to his videos and learn but have never really heard much about speaker construction outside of the exterior cabinet materials.

Mr. Powell does a great job explaining the insides of a Power conditioner and talks about Cable and power cord construction every once in a while.  But I don't recall him talking about the construction of crossovers within the speaker in any great detail.

I wish there were more opportunities to learn from these guys who may have the knowledge. Maybe they turn off the viewers if it gets too intellectual. We know the manufacturers won't do any of this.

New ocd video out featuring the Nat amplifiers. 

I never noticed how bright these things are.  Anybody ever try these nat amplifiers with their oversized tubes.  Is it a good thing to have tubes so big?

These are $100,000 amplifiers. What makes them so expensive??

@invalid

Have you heard the nat amplifiers?

Are these experimental? and that’s a lot of electricity flowing through those things. What does “more of a justification” mean as you indicated when comparing to other amplifiers?

They look super exotic but how do they compare? 

@vuch 

I love how your NAT amplifiers look. I think the tube size on your amplifier seems more appropriate for since the oversized tubes I see from OCD.  How long does it take to get an amplifier from him?  What happens if they need to be repaired do you send them back to Mike Powell or back to Serbia?

I had a return issue on some amplifiers and fortunately my dealer was nearby replaced the amplifier but if I had to get it serviced, it would've taken 3 to 4 months if I'm lucky.

Maybe they can fix it here in the US if I was to buy one.

Why are the new tubes so much bigger? What's the value of having these tubes so big?