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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.  
 

 

emergingsoul

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mahgister
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Criticizing and repeating the obvious is useless...

A bit more information about a product is more fun and help...

I concur with cd318 opinion... Near me there exist only an audio shop a 45 minutes of travel... Youtube is just welcome ...

 

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mahgister
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What is absurd is not buying 400,000 bucks speakers so much as putting them in a non dedicated completely tuned for them acoustic room...

This nourrish the complete ignorance of acoustic by consumers...Who think putting panels on a small room or in a large one is enough...

it is not my experience in small room at all..

In general nobody sell acoustic save acoustician... In general acoustic cannot be sold ( panels can be) we must learn it in s specfic room by ourself... it is painstaking and long.... At least it was for me but more fun than anything  with improvement each day or two, and more revwarding than any possible upgrade, no comparison.. Anyway new upgrade must be acoustically integrated ...

Now knowing that most people can do that, it is sad, i recommend headphone...

Anyway most live happy with their speakers in their living room why not?  Only music matter at the end...

But if we speak about audio truth, truth matter  matter , there is no short cut for acoustic, but they are many shrortcut about costlier purchase choices..

 

emergingsoul OP
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Jays YouTube site seems to be most prolific with sound clip vids on speaker that cost like $400,000.

Absurd someone spends this much money on speakers. My guess these things are on loan since he’s got new speakers every other week. To keep the same speakers means he loses his viewers.

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mahgister
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I dont see it any other way than marketing sellings pitch, with sincere audiophiles really hearing DIFFERENCES if not most of the times , very often... I myself hear differences... 😊

But there is in audio circle a fetichism of the gear to some point which hide deep acoustic ignorance...Variation of sound for the better dont means we are on the right road ... Anyone can buy a costly upgrade which upgrade could be without acoustic knowledge a dead end even if it is an improvement... You cannot replace acoustic by purchasing speakers or a tube amplifier over a S.S. one or a turntable instead of a dac or the reverse...

You can buy a 20,000 bucks amplifier or speakers but you cannot buy acoustic experience and knowledge...You must learn it... i discovered it the hard way...

And the audio vocabulary anyway is meaningless by itself without a more deeper language using concepts based on acoustic and psycho-acoustic experience where subjectivity is put in charge but under control...

I agree with you emergingsoul about the time spend...

Now anyway i am so pleased by my musical and sound experience i came here more for friends and discussion with my grain of salt than for audiophile search for the optimal soundfield... I am already way over the minimal threshold of S.Q. but for sure with a 600 bucks system under the absolute optimal threshold... I cannot claim to beat costly product implemented well in a dedicated room.. But i am pleased so much with what i experince i dont give a damn..

The only things that matter is the way we must learn HOW to listen using acoustic simple basic concepts and listenings experiments to figure out how we will work further to reach the optimal S.Q. /low price ratio POSSIBLE with the specific components we had chosen in the scale...

The rest is neurosis for me...

 

My best to you...

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