The OCD MIKEY GUY IS ANNOYONG as all heck. Looks down on All kinds of quality gear, such as marantz, Macintosh, Yamaha, etc...only raves about the boutique crap he sells, and Noone ever heard of, of which costs crazy amounts of dough. Loves to plug those slabs of Rock speakers, idk, fisher & fisher, never heard of them, nor do I care to. I doubt high end audio is a scam, but there are certainly a lot of jerks and snobs in this hobby or whatever you want to call it, maybe a disease. Now about acoustics...I don't use a single thing. I treat the room by stuffing it with all sorts of different fabrics/upholstery/furnishings etc.... It sounds good to me, and I can care less if it does not to someone else.
The Insane World of High End Audio! Is it All a Scam?
This 15 minutes of youtube video by "cheapaudioman" say a lot and hide a lot...
He review low cost products ...
His analysis of audiophiles world here seems fair to me...
But nowhere in all his videos and in this one he mention "acoustics" as the basis of audio hobby, the anker of any system and gear piece evaluation and satisfaction...
He always talk about the gear... Probably acoustics for him as for most is only acoustics panels purchase...
My point is not that the audio world of audiophile is a scam with scammers...
Not at all.
It is ignorance of what is acoustics basics that makes people victim of their own decisions and a potential prey for honest or dishonest sellers..