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So many YouTube clips to evaluate sound quality. Why???

There are several audio gear Youtubers chronically playing clips displaying speakers and amplifiers and even cables to have YouTube listeners evaluate sound quality.  And then they go to shows and display music clips from the very small Hotel rooms.  And yes I watch a few and some can be interesting. It's gotta be tough for these manufactures to go to these hotels all the time and deal with all the people. Basically, it's a mixture of all kinds of higher end components and somehow it's possible to appreciate what individual components sound like. $200,000 speakers surrounded by lots of other high-priced gear. How does one charge anything?

Are they trying to fool people with sound comparison music clips? What is the point and why are they wasting their time?  Maybe headphones might detect something.  I fail to appreciate why these individuals do this, and why do they dedicate so much time to this.  Are they being paid to promote speakers and amplifiers?  And then reading the comments where all these people seem to really believe they hear differences.

Time might be better spent explaining technical merits of the gear and opinions on how it sounds. And why their recommended gear is so expensive.  
 

 

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cd318
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@pabs85 

Nicely put.

YouTube clips certainly do not all sound alike.

I'd go further and say that a well recorded YouTube video will tell you a lot more than any written subjective account ever could.

The difference between any impression gained by the written word and that of hearing it for yourself is fairly significant.

You could say a similar thing about hearing a recording in the studio and then reproduced on CD or vinyl etc but there's nothing like hearing something for yourself.

Presumably, when it comes to YouTube, on a pair of decent headphones.

 

cd318
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@mbmi 

Great point.

Fun is usually what initially gets us into this hobby.

Those early years of discovery were certainly exciting for me. It was only much later that a certain amount of world weary cynicism began to creep in.

At the start of it all, it felt like being a kid in a giant toy shop.

 

I think the OP was questioning the validity of online listening tests via YouTube but that's not the main point of it anyway.

As we always like to say, there's no real substitute for listening in person - YouTube is for fun.

Everyone happy now?

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